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The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the worlds most famous painting, before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent ...
In 1516, when he was 64 years old, Leonardo da Vinci found himself at a crossroads. His patron, Giuliano de’ Medici, the brother of Pope Leo X, had just died and new commissions were not ...
The “Mona Lisa Effect” — the impression that the eyes of a subject are staring right at or following a viewer — is actually a ... But La Gioconda’s gaze tilts right, researchers found.
The Mona Lisa is famed for two things: her enigmatic smile and her steady gaze, widely believed to follow her viewers around the room. Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned painting, also ...
An art critic for The New York Times argued on Wednesday that "it's time to take down" the iconic Mona Lisa portrait from the Louvre Museum in Paris, which sparked quite the reaction on social media.
The Mona Lisa, known as La Gioconda by Italians and La Joconde by the French, is thought to be a depiction of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant in Florence.
The stunning find of what the Prado now says is probably the earliest known copy of La Gioconda will give art lovers and experts an idea of what the "Mona Lisa" looked like back in the 16th ...
While there have been several studies stating that this occurs with the Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda), the authors claim those studies failed to cite convincing evidence of the phenomenon.So they ...
The critic E.K. Chambers diagnosed melancholia in a photo of Amy Levy, that he found reminiscent of the Mona Lisa, adding: “Leonardo’s ironically named La Gioconda… is curiously at home ...
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