What is so special about the Mona Lisa?

Mystical smile fantastic background.

For 500 years, people have been fascinated by the mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa. Different viewers or at different times seem to have different feelings. Sometimes I think she smiles comfortably and gently, sometimes she looks serious, sometimes she seems to be slightly sad, and sometimes she even shows ridicule and ridicule.

In a painting, the change in light cannot make as much difference as in a sculpture. But on the Mona Lisa's face, faint shadows appear and disappear, casting a veil over her eyes and lips. The human smile is mainly manifested in the corners of Yu Duansen's eyes and mouth, but Da Ven Zhenmuqi painted these parts faintly, without a clear boundary, so there is this unpredictable "mysterious smile".

Viewing this painting from different angles and in different lighting will give people different feelings. The smile is sometimes gentle, sometimes serene and serious, sometimes slightly sad, sometimes a little sarcastic and teasing, and the mysterious smile reveals the mysterious spiritual activity of the characters.

Carlo Pedretti, a professor at the University of California, believes that the background behind the Mona Lisa is a view near the Briano Bridge in the city of Arezzo in central Italy. Pedretti's evidence is that da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci, about 100 kilometers from Arezzo, and lived in Arezzo, and that the original landscape of this area is almost exactly the same as the setting of the Mona Lisa, so it is very likely that da Vinci used the idyllic scenery of this area as the backdrop for the Mona Lisa. When this view of Pedretti was announced at the International Symposium on Leonardo da Vinci's Painting, many art historians affirmed his findings.

Year 1503.

Leonardo da Vinci began to work on the Mona Lisa.

Year 1507.

Mona Lisa is completed.

Year 1514.

Leonardo da Vinci accepted the invitation of King François I of France to move to France, and the Mona Lisa accompanied him.

Year 1519.

Leonardo da Vinci died at the age of 67 in the French city of Ambois, and the Mona Lisa was purchased by François I around this time.

30s of the 16th century.

François I presented the Mona Lisa for the first time in a semi-public gallery at the Château de Fontainebleau.

Year 1789.

At the beginning of the French Revolution, the Mona Lisa was hidden in a warehouse and escaped looting.

Year 1800.

The Mona Lisa fell into the hands of Napoleon, who hung her in his bedroom.

Year 1804.

The Mona Lisa was invited into the Louvre——— where it would be a long-term home in the future.

August 21, 1911.

The Mona Lisa was found missing.

December 11, 1913.

The thieves tried to sell the Mona Lisa to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and thus **.

December. Mona Lisa travels to Italy.

December 31.

The Mona Lisa was shipped back to Paris.

1956 year.

Someone threw sulphuric acid at the Mona Lisa, and the lower part of the portrait was damaged. Restoration work continued for several years.

50s of the last century.

The Louvre has removed some of the old stains from the paintings through technical means, a move that is believed to be damaging to the paintings themselves.

1963 year.

Mona Lisa" was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

1974 year.

The Mona Lisa went abroad for the last time and was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

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First of all, this painting was born in the Renaissance period, you know, before this, painters were counting the painting of gods, churches or something, and Mona Lisa, as an ordinary person, can be moved to the canvas, which is from thousands of years of "painting gods" and "painting saints" to "painting people" and "painting ordinary people" The pioneering work, and from "theomy" to "humanism" is the theme of the Renaissance.

Before the Renaissance, Western painting mainly depicted gods, gods and goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology, Zeus, Venus, or religious figures, or "saints" - historical heroes, Caesar, Alexander and the like. In short, they are all prophets who are far away from the real world, and their expressions are mostly extraordinary, such as lofty, great, and suffering, and even most of them have no expressions, no thoughts, and are the same.

It was only in the Renaissance that painters began to look away from the altar and to the earth. And "Mona Lisa" can be said to be the first masterpiece in history to paint real people, live people, and ordinary people, who is Mona Lisa? It's just a businessman's wife, an unknown person, and even her appearance is extremely ordinary.

Since then, "humanism" has been created. From "God-oriented" to "human-oriented", from illusory to realistic, from dead to alive, from heaven to earth, this is a great breakthrough in Western culture.

It can be said that this painting is a milestone and representative work of the entire Renaissance, and the origin of European capitalism is derived from the Renaissance, and the significance of cultural history is very significant, far beyond the history of art. It can be said that the value of this painting is completely comparable to Copernicus's "heliocentric theory" and Darwin's "evolution theory", and since then the illusory creationism propagated by the church has been completely shattered and returned to the real world and rational nature.