Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

• Mona Lisa, probably the world's most famous painting is an oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, who is not only an Italian painter but also a draftsman, sculptor, architect and engineer.
• The poplar panel show evidence of warping and was stabilized in 1951 with addition of an oak frame in 1970 with four vertical braces.
• It was painted between 1503 and 1519.
• The subject's mysterious smile and identity have made the painting an ongoing investigation.
  
• These signs of aging cause a little distractions on the painting's effect.
• The painting represents a woman in half-body potrait, showing a backdrop of a distant landscape. 
• The curves of the subject's hair and clothing was created through sfumato (use of fine shading), are echoed in the shapes of valleys and rivers behind her. 
• A lot of speculation have been surrounding about the subject in the image. 
• It was first suggested in 1550 by Giorgio Vasari, an artist biographer, that she is Lisa del Giocondo, wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco di Bortolomeo del Giocondo, thus suggesting another title to the work, La Gioconda.
• Another theory was by Sigmund Freud, who thinks that it was Leonardo's mother, Caterina, who thinks that the smile was perhaps from unconscious-memory of Caterina's smile. 
• Some scholars suggest's that disguising himself as a woman was the artist's riddle. 
• In August 2013, a team of art and forensic experts opened the tomb of the Giocondo family in Florence to find Lisa del Giocondo's remains, test her DNA and recreates her face. 
  
   
• Whoever she is, the painting have been a real influence in the Renaissence time and later. 
• Leonardo's preliminary drawings have encourage other artists to make more free and free studies for their paintings and attract experts to collect drawings. 
• His style also has spread among fellow artist and make them be like him, more freedom of action and thought of his own. 
• Leonardo have influenced artist in which they also dressed their subjects. 
• The painting demonstrates how perfectly the subject was treated in the way she was dressed in coloured shift, loose at the neck instead of tighter clothes that were more popular at the time. 
• There are also at least a dozen of other Mona Lisa's exist that were created by the master's students.
• Over the centuries, this ultimate women have been really popular.
• Mona Lisa till now have been in songs, films and other things.