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“Mona Lisa”, the most famous painting by the Italian painter “Leonardo da Vinci”, attracts more than 6 million visitors to the Louvre Museum in the French capital every year, but have you ever thought about what makes the “Mona Lisa” so famous?
Who is Mona Lisa?
A number of experts in the world said the art The Mona Lisa is Isabella d’Este, a woman from a noble Italian family, and others claim she is Costanza de Avalos, Duchess of Francavilla.
Later, scholars have suggested that the person in the photo was the painter Leonardo da Vinci himself, while others have indicated that he was da Vinci’s assistant, who accompanied him for 20 years.
Other scholars believed that the person in the painting was Gian Giacomo Caprotti, da Vinci’s lover.
On the other hand, many theories have confirmed that the painting may have begun as a life image, but over the years da Vinci worked on it, developing it into an “abstract vision of woman”.
Today most experts and scholars agree that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, wife of a Florentine silk merchant, noting that Lisa met da Vinci in 1503, when she was 24 years old.
hidden characters
The characters of LV Eye Right
The characters of LV Eye rightBrightside site
In 2010, Silvano Vince stated, President The Commission Italian National Cultural Heritage, to have noticed two letters carefully drawn in the right eye of the Mona Lisa, namely: LV (initials of Leonardo da Vinci), while in Eye Left saw letters BE C.
At that time, the Louvre Museum, in which the painting has since been exhibited, responded years In a statement he said, what Vincenti saw were just “microscopic cracks” in the painting’s varnish and nothing more.
broken background
The landscape behind the Mona Lisa’s head is higher on the right than on the left; This makes it difficult to connect the two landscapes.
Experts say this view makes the Mona Lisa appear taller and more upright when viewed from the left than from the right.
Mysterious smile
In 2000, Harvard University scientists stated that when you look into Mona Lisa’s eyes, her mouth is in black-and-white peripheral vision (which are the shadows of her mouth); This makes her smile appear wider than hers, but her smile diminishes when you look directly at her mouth from the front.
Experts say that the Mona Lisa’s smile changes depending on her viewing angle, making her appear alive and making her “mysterious”.
The Unknown Bridge
Experts say the landscape behind the Mona Lisa looks “unrealistic,” but the visible bridge could be one Leonardo was familiar with, most likely the Buriano Bridge in Tuscany.
But in 2011 a researcher claimed that it was the Bobbio bridge over the Trebia, swept away by a flood in 1472.
The Mona Lisa took da Vinci 4 years to finish, and it was said that he carried it with him wherever he went, but he did not sign it and did not write any dates on it. The painting even moved with him France during the last years of his life.
Before his death, Da Vinci sold the painting to King Francis I, but kept it hidden for nearly 200 years.
In 1799 he saw the painting “Napoleon Bonaparte”, took it and hung it in his bedroom, and in 1804 the painting was first seen in public in the Louvre Museum.
A number of doctors have examined the picture of the Mona Lisa and in 2010 an Italian doctor said that the swelling around the Mona Lisa’s eyes was evidence that she was suffering from cholesterol. While other doctors have confirmed that she suffered from facial paralysis, some have indicated that she was “deaf”.
Experts said the look of satisfaction on Mona Lisa’s face indicated she was pregnant, while dentists assumed she suffered from “compulsive bruxism”; Because her upper lip line indicates that she is missing front teeth, which increases the possibility that she is exposed to domestic violence.
