Mona Lisa

'The supreme sophistication and simplicity' said Leonardo da Vinci about it. Just to corroborate it, we shall not go to the Louvre museum without seeing the Gioconda, the masterwork of the Italian painting. Done between 1503 and 1506 it probably represents the Florentine 'Mona Lisa del Giocondo'. When it was acquired by the king Francis I, in 1518, the work was already famous among the painters of its time and, at the Romantic epoch, the Gioconda fascinated many artists, who contributed further to develop the myth.

With the advent of the XXth century, its 'adventures' -most famously its theft, when it was hidden under a bed for two years and which drove, accidentally, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire to prison- grant the painting international attention. The 'Mona Lisa', an oil portrait done over a rather thin poplar panel (12 mm.) is nowadays the most famous picture of the world.

The emblematic smiling and look of the Dame are mysteries that never cease to catch the attention: her eyes seem to follow whoever is contemplating her; the lips, being captious, grant her a joyful expression providing that we focus the eyes on them, but if we regard her mouth the smile disappears. According to many artists, the Gioconda is the summit of the artistic portrait. Moreover, it needs to be remarked that the dazzling pictorial technique, for which Leonardo uses glazes (coat of almost transparent color) and applies them without distinction of lines or silhouettes, as if tinting (being this technique called 'sfumato' in Italian), makes it the most successful representative of the Platonic quests, where the beauty of the soul shows through that of the body and of the nature.

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