Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci by MadameRuiz

One of the world's most iconic and famous paintings! The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa, an ancient painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Who does not know the work? The painting hangs in the prestigious Louvre and attracts 20,000 tourists every day. It is mainly the mysterious gaze of the Mona Lisa that attracts people. She seems to follow you everywhere. And that smile, is so minimal yet present. She is not exuberantly happy, but subdued and content. Besides, for many, the sfumato technique that Leonardo da Vinci used is a wonderful element in the Mona Lisa. Because you can paint with oil paint wet in wet, you can make the light and dark transitions so subtle that it is barely visible where something begins and ends. The Mona Lisa is probably the portrait of Lisa Gherardini or in full Lisa di Antonmaria Gherardini di Montagliari. She was the third wife of Francesco del Giocondo, who probably commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci's painting. What is innovative about the Mona Lisa is not only the painting technique of the sfumato, but anyway the super realistic atmosphere that Leonardo Da Vinci sets here. Created at the time of the Renaissance, the work places a woman at the centre of a landscape. The focus on nature as an earthly environment in the here and now has everything to do with the emerging Humanism of the time.

For this reproduction, the colours have been adjusted slightly, giving her a less green tinge about herself than the works we usually come across. Something I personally like better.

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