Mona Lisa Day June 11

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was a portrait of the third wife of a local merchant of the 14th Century. The Masterful artist spent years on the painting to the exclusion of more influential patrons. Legend has it that he hired musicians and jesters to keep his model full of merriment, and to also chase way the melancholy, that painters would characteristically give to their portraits, As a result, she has
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"...A Smile So Pleasing That It Seems Diviane Rather Than Human..."
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Leonardo realized that an element of mystery gave a face realism and that indistinct features created
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"A Beauty Touched With Strangeness".
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The portrait is not merely a depiction of the sitter, but an idealized beauty. Behind her Da Vinci has created an idealized landscape drawn from his own observations of natural forms.