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the Mona Lisa painting
The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous international paintings, and it was drawn by the famous italyn artist Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the most famous painters of all time. To make her keep her smile while he was drawing it. The Mona Lisa is also called the geoconda, and the plate is small in size compared to other Da Vinci paintings, as it is 30 inches long, and its width is 21 inches.
The location of the Mona Lisa
Some prevailing beliefs say: The Mona Lisa is not complete, as many of its details are believed to have disappeared or destroyed due to its transfer from one frame to another; the painting remained with Da Vinci in which he moved from one country to another to show his skills and creativity in drawing, where Da Vinci carried the painting Starting with Milan, then Rome, then France. King Francis I bought the plate and placed it in the chateau de Chatillon, and then the painting was transferred to the Palace of Versailles, and in 1798 AD it was transferred to the Louvre Museum in Paris, then Napoleon took it and put it in his bedroom when the French Revolution occurred, and that was in the year 1800 AD, until the Mona Lisa was returned To the Louvre Museum in Paris by 1804 AD. The Mona Lisa is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, and it is visited by about six million people annually, and everyone can look at it in just 15 seconds.
The reality of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci began to draw the Mona Lisa in 1503 AD, and finished it in 1510 CE, where he drew at the request of the italyn silk merchant Francisco Del Giocondo, who was a close friend of Da Vinci, he was asked to draw his third wife as an expression of his love for her, according to what he reached To him the italyn historian Giuseppe Ballanti, where he researched for 25 years.
It was said: Francisco Del Giocondo did not receive the painting because Da Vinci took a long time to paint it, and although there are indications of the presence of the Mona Lisa in the past, and her knowledge seemed to be Vinci personally, but these indications do not prove that she is the same woman present in the painting, and no one knows Who is the woman specifically depicted in the painting? Some say that she is the mother of Da Fashni, and there are those who claim that she is a figment of his imagination, as others claim that she is the embodiment of the Virgin Mary.
There are many accounts about the Mona Lisa and the secret of her sad smile. There is a novel that says she was called Madonna Lisa di Antino, the third wife of the italyn silk merchant Da Vinci’s friend. As for her sad smile, Da Vinci analyzed the matter with his artistic expertise, and discovered that she was loving someone else, She died of a chronic muscular disease, and since then she has not laughed, and he has also discovered that she married a silk merchant against her will, and there are other sources that say that she was pregnant, and that she is sad because of the pain she was feeling.
A Chinese writer and historian named Angelo Paratico said: The Mona Lisa is a painting painted by Da Vinci for his mother, a Chinese maid named Katrina, and said: The relationship between his father who is believed to have been a government writer and his mother was denounced by those close to him because it is a servant, and Baratico has researched in This Arab travelers years to prove this, and also concluded that it moved to the city of Vinci, because the relationship with servants was inappropriate at the time, and Paratico said: (During the Renaissance, countries like Italy and Spain were full of eastern slaves, as Sigmund Freud said in the year 1910, Flaha For Mona Lisa it was perhaps a picture of his mother, in the background of the picture there are Chinese landscapes, and even her face looks Chinese), and this theory has been refuted by art historian Vitor Teixeira, indicating that Da Vinci’s features do not indicate that he is of Chinese origin, so the idea of his mother being Chinese far from reality.
The techniques used to draw the Mona Lisa
On the artistic level, the Mona Lisa became famous because of the use of an innovative technique in drawing it. Da Vinci used an innovative technique that combines the side and front sections in the paintings of people, so that it gives the appearance of the personification of the painted person, and this technique is called the middle projection. Objects were completely drawn either with side projection or forward projection, and both did not give depth to the image. Anyone who looks at the Mona Lisa carefully and with an artistic eye will notice that it takes a hierarchical form, as the hands are located on the two adjacent bases of the pyramid, and the shoulders and head form the opposite sides of the pyramid, and many contemporary great painters, including Raphael, imitated the style of Leon.
Another technique presented by Da Vinci that was not known before the Mona Lisa is camouflaged painting, whether for features or background, a method in which clear lines of features do not appear, as colors overlap between them in a fuzzy way to finally show the shape that the artist wanted to embody, and this technique enabled da So we start from merging two different backgrounds from each other. The background to the right of the painted woman differs from the background to her left, as if da Vinci drew each of them from different heights, and the difference appears in inclination, line of horizon, and depth of image.
Steal the painting and return it
In 1911, a young French man named Perugi stole the Mona Lisa from the museum, and no one noticed the disappearance of the painting. Even the guards believed that the location of the painting was changed for the purpose of photography, and they did not realize that it had been stolen until the next day, and this was a great event, so the museum was closed nine days The French border was closed, all trains and ships were searched, and two years later the real robber, Vincenzo Perugi, was arrested and was a carpenter working in the Louvre at the time, which facilitated the theft.
Vincenzo Perugi sold the painting 451230 to an artist of italyn origin called Alfredo Jerry, and when Alfredo confirmed that it was the original Mona Lisa da Vinci, he informed the italyn authorities who had arrested the thief, and placed the Mona Lisa in the Beaufort Gallery. The French government learned about the matter, and it undertook several negotiations with the aim of returning the painting, and these negotiations almost ended with the interruption of the relationship between the two countries, except that it ended with the restoration of the painting, and with it the thief to try him for his actions, and when he was tried he was able to convince the government that he was a national italyn, and that he intended to return the painting To Italy, where she was originally from, and thus he was sentenced to only six months’ imprisonment.
Mona Lisa throughout the ages
Throughout the ages, the Mona Lisa was vandalized by many people. In 1956 a man threw acid on it, and in the same year a woman threw a rock at her, and in 1974 AD when the painting was on display in Tokyo a woman sprayed a red paint on her, and in 2009 a woman threw a woman Upset about her denial of French nationality, a cup of coffee on the plate that she had bought from the museum’s market itself. As for the nature’s role in destroying the painting, it represented the effect of moisture on it, as it led to the occurrence of marvels in the wooden frame, and the occurrence of a crack that started from the top of the plate and reached a hair The Mona Lisa, all those things that happened T, pushed to surround the plate with bulletproof glass to preserve it.
