Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Monna Lisa Smile


The Mona Lisa (Italian: Monna Lisa or La Gioconda, French: La Joconde) or La Gioconda is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
The sitter, Lisa del Giocondo,[8][9] was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.[10] The painting is thought to have been commissioned for their new home, and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea.[11] The Italian name for the painting, La Gioconda, means "jocund" ("happy" or "jovial"), or literally "the jocund one", a pun on the feminine form of the sitter's married name Giocondo.[10][12] In French, the title La Joconde has the same meaning.

I think Leonardo da Vinci is in love with the Lady Lisa. He kept on working on the painting for years. I would also think that he has shown the painting to the Lady who has a nasty pair of eyebrows and a big smile. Leonardo is just teasing the Lady with his painting of her with no eyebrows and a faint smile.

What is Leonardo doing with all the reworking of the painting? He is reminiscing about her moods because her smile and face is tattooed on his mind.




I dunno, it just occurred to me that Mona is from Mon Amie which means My Friend. I know that is a french word that usually the greeting of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's detective and its almost certain that Leonardo could have known the term Mon Amie. That is why I shared the video.

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