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"Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949), in which it was performed by Sergio de Karlo and a recurrent accordion motif. The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It was released on the 1972 album Honky Château . The lyrics conveyed Taupin's take on New York City after hearing a gun go off near his hotel window during his first visit to the city. [ 1 ]
Beginning in 1883 there were annual shows, or masked balls, or both. In an 1883 show, the artist Eugène Bataille contributed Le rire, an "augmented" Mona Lisa smoking a pipe, that directly prefigures the famous Marcel Duchamp 1919 "appropriation" of the Mona Lisa, L.H.O.O.Q., born 4 years later. The movement wound down in the mid-1890s.
The creation of L.H.O.O.Q. profoundly transformed the perception of La Joconde (what the French call the painting, in contrast with the Americans and Germans, who call it the Mona Lisa). In 1919 the cult of Jocondisme was practically a secular religion of the French bourgeoisie and an important part of their self image as patrons of the arts.
The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
How one company justified a million-dollar logo redesign inspired by the Mona Lisa—and moved just two wavy lines: ‘Surely this is satire’ Sasha Rogelberg May 19, 2024 at 8:41 AM
The Mona Lisa bridge has four arches, which Vinceti says was likely the case for the Romito, although only one arch remains from the ruined bridge. Basing his calculations off the surviving arch ...
You have the Mona Lisa of the museum. You have the attraction. “You also have somebody that allows for owners to win repeatedly, and when owners win repeatedly, their revenues skyrocket. They ...