The Mysterious Mona Lisa Masterpiece

                About a couple of months ago, I started getting into painting. I'm differently not a Picasso-but hey I tried! My biggest problem is that I didn’t know what to paint, so I went on the internet for some inspiration....I was pretty inspired. I started researching famous artist like Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, and Vincent Van Gogh. While I was studying their biographies, and observing their masterpieces I decided to research the Mona Lisa, I've heard so many things about it but I never really observed and researched it.




            The Mona Lisa’s famous mysterious smile has beguiled generations of viewers, but the true identity of the woman remains unknown. Many believe the Mona Lisa is a portrait of Lisa Geraldine Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco Del Giocondo. Others have suggested the subject was a mistress of da Vinci, or even a self-portrait, with da Vinci imagining himself as a woman. It is known that Leonardo began the portrait in Florence in 1503, continued work on it through 1506, and then kept the painting until his death in 1519.

             Over the next three centuries the Mona Lisa passed through many hands, even hanging for a time in the bedroom of Napoleon, but since 1804 its home has been the Louvre Museum in Paris. Leonardo's painting is famous among artists for its innovative techniques, including sfumato (shown in the painting's distinctive hazy, soft-focus effect) and chiaroscuro (use of light and shadow).


             Now I know what the whole fuss is about the Mona Lisa, its truly a work of art and one of Davinchis many masterpieces.





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