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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.
Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
Joconde is the central database created in 1975 and now available online, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, for objects in the collections of the main French public and private museums listed as Musées de France, according to article L. 441-1 of the Code du patrimoine [3] amounting to more than 1,200 institutions. [4]
The Prado Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris. The Prado Mona Lisa has been in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid , Spain since 1819, [ 1 ] but was considered for decades a relatively unimportant copy. [ 2 ]
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery of Art, 8 January 1963 - 3 February 1963 ; The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 February 1963 - 4 March 1963 ; Mona Lisa Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, 20 April 1974 - 10 June 1974 ; References: A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: from the Renaissance to the Present ...
The technique in this portrait and in the "Mona Lisa" is called "sfumato," in which da Vinci blended colors and shades to get gradual transitions between different shapes in each painting.
A replica of Mona Lisa publicized as the "world's smallest" was painted by Andrew Nichols of New Hampshire (USA) in 2011, intending "to break the record." Recreated at a 70:1 ratio, the miniature Mona Lisa measures approximately 1/4 by 7/16 inches (7 by 11 mm). Although his rendition drew media attention, it was never officially reported ...
Imagine flying to Paris to see the Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world, and a YouTuber is there hanging his own self-portrait next to it.