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The Mona Lisa in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, 1913. Museum director Giovanni Poggi (right) inspects the painting. In 1911, Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century.
The theory that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait by Leonardo was first proposed in 1987 by Lillian Schwartz, an artist and computer technician.Shwartz noted the similarities in the shapes of the facial features of the painting with those of the drawing popularly believed to be a self-portrait of Leonardo, and theorized that the Mona Lisa may have been a self-portrait in drag. [2]
The avant-garde art world has made note of the Mona Lisa ' s undeniable popularity. Because of the painting's overwhelming stature, Dadaists and Surrealists often produce modifications and caricatures. In 1883, Le rire, an image of a Mona Lisa smoking a pipe, by Sapeck (Eugène Bataille), was shown at the "Incoherents" show in Paris.
Every detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has undergone dissection. Much of that scrutiny has led to more questions than answers about the true identities revealed in the early 16 th century ...
Museum of Modern Art New York: Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich [63] $145.6 $107.5 L’Homme assis au verre: Pablo Picasso: 1914 May 2011: Yves Bouvier [note 14] Dmitry Rybolovlev: Private sale via Yves Bouvier [64] [65] $139.3 $139.3 Femme à la montre: Pablo Picasso: 1932 November 9, 2023: Emily Fisher Landau's estate Anonymous ...
The Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia had been open for four years when, following a visitor complaint, a local tribunal ordered it to stop refusing ...
The Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States in 1963. Planned by Jacqueline Kennedy and André Malraux, it was first displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with around 2,000 dignatories including John F. Kennedy at the first showing, followed by 500,000 people over the next three weeks.
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