The 'Mona Lisa' is a very spellbinding painting – one that you just have to keep looking at. And the more one looks, the more it seems to change. Pretty eerie.
Monna (or Mona) Lisa, was a young Florentine woman and was married to a well-known figure, Francesco del Giocondo in 1495. The work is dated between 1503 and 1505, and Leonardo loved the portrait so much that he always carried it with him, until eventually it was sold to François I.
The 'Mona Lisa' is famous for many different reasons – some say because of her elusive expression – whether she be sad or amused. Others, because of the air of mystery about her created by the 'sfumato' technique that Leonardo used - a blending and shadowy effect. Indeed, when we saw the painting it seemed better appreciated from afar where the figure became clearer as one stepped away. Also, on close inspection of the painting the right side and the left side don’t match:- the horizon on one side is lower than the other giving the impression that Mona is taller and more upright on one side than the other correlating with a change in her facial expression. The 'Mona Lisa' also became more famous because she was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and was rediscovered in a hotel in Florence a couple of years later. Mush
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