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| Mona Lisa After One Week in the U.S. | | 2008-05-29 11:21:35 | | P.S. Got these Mona Lisas in an email. Tried to look up the source, but couldn’t find. Feel free to comment if you know!
While we’re at it:
Taming the wild with Timotei styling mousse: an ad by JWT, Paris.
And another play on cultural icons: an ad for the German Olympic Sports Federation by Scholz & Friends [...]
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| | Mona Lisa's smile | | 2008-04-23 23:38:00 | | Groundbreaking study deconstructs Mona Lisa's smile PARIS – Mona Lisa's celebrated shadows around her eyes and mouth were created by Leonardo da Vinci through layers of different paints, according to a groundbreaking study published Tuesday.Using a technique known as sfumato, which overlays translucent layers of color to create perceptions of depth, volume and form, da Vinci first applied paint containing manganese on the celebrated painting, the study published in the periodical Applied Optics reported.That was followed by a second layer containing a mix of vermillion and lead, in a technique widely used by Italian painters of the period, according to the study's author Mady Elias.The analysis of the layers was done using a multi-spectral camera that can measure 100 million luminous spectrums in as many points on the painting."This is the first time that an accounting of luminous fluxes in the material has been applied to art," said Elias, a researcher at the Paris-based National Ce | | By: Pro Pinoy | | |
| | Mona Lisa, Part of Chinese Culture | | 2008-02-12 05:46:42 | | Whilst killing time on eBay looking for dollar antiques, I came across this listing, which does not mention that it is the Mona Lisa, or was painted by Van Gough Leonardo da Vinci which may help this guy get a better price
If you like chinese culture, don’t miss it! As you know, China has [...] | | By: Random Good Stuff | | |
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| Mona Lisa True Identity Unveiled | | 2008-01-20 17:20:52 | | According to scientists of the german university of Heidelberg, the true identity of Mona Lisa was finally confirmed.The woman who served as a model to Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "La Gioconda" also known as "Mona Lisa", was the fiorentine aristocrat Lisa Gherardini wife of a fabrics trader with the name of Francesco Del Giocondo.A note that was found by Martin Schlechter in one of the first books printed with movable characters, confirms that Lisa Del Giocondo was the model for the most famous painting completed between 1503 and 1506.Writen by Vespuci in 1503 and found on a work from 1477 by Cicerone, he states that Leonardo was working on the portrait of Lisa Del Giocondo.José Carrilho(according to news) | | By: The Art Inquirer | | |
| | | Lisa Gherardini a.k.a. Mona Lisa | | 2008-01-15 01:10:11 | | BERLIN - German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the 16th-century painting.But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself.Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world."All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by a discovery by Dr. Armin Schlechter," a manuscript expert, the library said in a statement on Monday.Until then, only "scant evidence" from 16th-century documents had been available. "This left lots of room for interpretation and there were many different identities put forward," the library said.The notes were made by a Florentine city official Agostino Vespucci, an acquaintance of the artist, in a collection of letters by the Roman orator Cicero.The comments compare Leonardo to the ancient Greek artist Apelles and say he was working on three paintings at the time, one of them a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo.Art experts, who have already dated the painting to this time, say the Heidelberg discovery is a breakthrough and the earliest mention linking the merchant's wife to the portrait."There is no reason for any lingering doubts that this is another woman," Leipzig University art historian Frank Zoellner told German radio. "One could even say that books written about all this in the past few years were unnecessary, had we known."The woman was first linked to the painting in around 1550 by Italian official Giorgio Vasari, the library said, but added there had been doubts about Vasari's reliability and had | | By: One Site Fits All. | | |
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| ¿Se ha descubierto el misterio de la Mona Lisa? | | 2008-01-15 00:31:00 | | El arte de la pintura es silencioso, oculto, individual, rodeado de magia, por lo tanto incógnito. Por mucho que indaguemos jamás conoceremos la musa que dio vida a una obra, nunca penetraremos en el alma del artista, eso es terreno vedado, personal, solo nos queda que el virtuoso nos dé una pista, un dato sobre su creación.Algo así ha sucedido con Leonardo Da Vinci y su famosa Mona Lisa. Su secreta identidad ha intrigado a muchas generaciones de críticos y especialistas, se dice que fue una amante del genio, su madre e incluso un autorretrato. Todas las teorías ruedan por el suelo, ninguna es lo suficientemente sólida para mantenerse en pie y derribar la original: Lisa Gherardini, esposa de un rico mercader florentino, Francesco del Giocondo.Ahora, historiadores alemanes vuelven a indagar en la famosa imagen y creen haber resuelto el misterio oculto tras su enigmática sonrisa. Antiguos documentos, un libro fechado en 1503, con notas al margen de un funcionario florentino, Agostino Vespucci, conocido del artista, hallado en una colección de cartas del orador romano Cicerón, revelan que Lisa Gherardini es la modelo, el hada que iluminó a Leonardo. Los comentarios comparan a Da Vinci con el antiguo artista griego Apelles, y dicen que en ese momento estaba trabajando en tres pinturas, una de ellas un retrato de Lisa del Giocondo.Teoría bastante sólida, consistente con la original pero los que soñamos despiertos, los amantes del secreto, seguimos suspirando por algo más, no nos rendimos, vislumbramos a un Leonardo disfrazando sus creaciones para ocultar una inviolable verdad. | | By: Letras e Ideas | | |
| | German experts crack Mona Lisa smile | | 2008-01-14 22:05:49 | | German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself.Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world."All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by a discovery by Dr. Armin Schlechter," a manuscript expert, the library said in a statement on Monday.Until then, only "scant evidence" from sixteenth-century documents had been available. "This left lots of room for interpretation and there were many different identities put forward," the library said.The notes were made by a Florentine city official Agostino Vespucci, an acquaintance of the artist, in a collection of letters by the Roman orator Cicero.The comments compare Leonardo to the ancient Greek artist Apelles and say he was working on three paintings at the time, one of them a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo.Art experts, who have already dated the painting to this time, say the Heidelberg discovery is a breakthrough and the earliest mention linking the merchant's wife to the portrait."There is no reason for any lingering doubts that this is another woman," Leipzig University art historian Frank Zoellner told German radio. "One could even say that books written about all this in the past few years were unnecessary, had we known."The woman was first linked to the painting in around 1550 by Italian official Giorgio Vasari, the library said, but added there had been doubts about Vasari's reliability and had | | By: Goss INDIA | | |
| | Mona Lisa Up Close | | 2007-12-24 06:28:00 | | A French engineer recently subjected Leonardo's famous "Mona Lisa" to some extremely close scrutiny, using infrared and ultraviolet sensors as well as 13 different color filters. He did that to create 240-megapixel scans that he's spent some 3,000 hours analyzing. This article describes some of his | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Roubo da Mona Lisa | | 2007-08-22 17:20:00 | | Há exatos 96 anos, em 22 de agosto de 1911, mais de 400 anos após ser pintada por Leonardo da Vinci, a Mona Lisa foi roubada do Museu do Louvre, em Paris. Muitas pessoas, inclusive o poeta francês Guillaume Apollinaire e o pintor espanhol Pablo Picasso, foram presas e interrogadas sob suspeita de roubo da obra-prima. Especificamente quanto a Apollinaire e Picasso, estes foram soltos meses mais tarde.Acreditou-se que a pintura estava perdida para sempre, que jamais tornaria a aparecer. Porém a obra apareceu na Itália, nas mãos de um antigo empregado do museu onde a obra estava exposta, Vincenzo Peruggia, que era o verdadeiro ladrão. Seu feito chegou a ser considerado como o roubo do século XX. Entretanto, a explicação dele para o roubo era bastante simples: o ex-empregado do Louvre acreditava, erroneamente, que a obra havia sido roubada da Itália pelas tropas de Napoleão. Acreditava, assim, que se roubasse a pintura do museu e a devolvesse ao seu país de origem, tornar-se-i | | By: Torino Blog | | |
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