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The title of the painting, which is known in English as Mona Lisa, is based on the presumption that it depicts Lisa del Giocondo, although her likeness is uncertain. Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote that "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."
In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all art media, including literature , music and cinema . Subcategories
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
A pastiche combining elements of paintings by Pollaiuolo and Botticelli (Portrait of a Woman and Portrait of a Young Woman [it; fr; es] respectively), using Photoshop. A pastiche (/ p æ ˈ s t iː ʃ, p ɑː-/) [1] [2] is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. [3]
A parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous fresco "The Last Supper" featuring drag queens in the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris has sparked fury among the Catholic Church and far-right politicians ...
An example from Paul Johnson writing about Ernest Hemingway: Some [of Hemingway's later writing] was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably The Old Man and the Sea , though there was an element of self-parody in that too.
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