The mystery of the Mona Lisa Background

University of California Professor Carlo Pedretti thinks that, the background behind Mona Lisa came from the landscape in Bristol Arnold Bridge located in Arezzo city, central Italy. This is based on that Da Vinci was born in Vinci town which was about 100 kilometers away from Arezzo and he once lived there, in addition, the original landscape of this region was exactly the same as the background of Mona Lisa. Therefore, Da Vinci was likely to adopt the pastoral scenery of this region as the background of the Mona Lisa. When this view of Pedretti was announced in the International Symposium of Da Vinci Painting, many art history experts agreed with it.

The mystery of the cause of death of Mona Lisa
According to the records, Lisa •Di • Gherardini died of depression at the age of 46. But a Japanese cardiologist said he found Mona Lisa's left eye with a macular, which was a sign of high cholesterol levels. Japan cardiologist said Mona Lisa should die of myocardial infarction.

Mona Lisa is an endless issue for people to discuss. From its advent, the later generations have made a great deal of tasting and speculation, and left more and more puzzles. At present, there are hundreds of monographs concerning Mona Lisa and nearly 100 scholars considering this Da Vinci painting as a lifelong subject. The passage of time does not make the mysteries to be solved, only to leave more doubts to the future people with in-depth studies.

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Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci: Remarkable and Unrivalled

The work is presumed to be started in 1495 while Leonardo da Vinci completed it in 1498. In order to find the most proper face that fits each apostle, Leonardo spent large amount of time observing people in the market. As a result, in The Last Supper reproduction, every apostle appears to act like a real person.

On the right side of Jesus, Thomas, James the Greater and Philip comprise the next group. Thomas is clearly agitated. James the Greater stunned and Philip appears to be seeking clarification. The last group consists of Matthew, Thaddeus and Simon. It appears that both Matthew and Thaddeus are turned toward Simon to see if he can give them any explanations.

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Who was the Lady in this Portrait Oil Painting

There are known only three female portraits of which Krakow's Lady with an Ermine is arguably the most beautiful. It's also in the best shape after the 500-plus years that elapsed. Leonardo's masterpiece in The Czartoryskich Museum at 19 Sw. Jana street depicts a delightful teenage beauty, most probably Cecilia Gallerani who was the mistress of Milan's ruler Lodovico Sforza il Moro, the artist's patron. Most likely Leonardo da Vinci painted her in his early thirties, between 1482 and 1485 – i.e. some 20 years before the Paris Louvre's famed Mona Lisa – and for the first time he showed the sitter in the way that would soon become the standard. Art historians maintain it's the world's first modern-age portrait ever painted.

At the turn of the 20th century Polish art historians first suggested the "Lady" may be the missing portrait of Cecilia Gallerani. Bellincioni's poem, composed soon after the portrait was completed, and extant correspondence between Gallerani and Isabella d'Este helped scholars identify the picture as such, however, the sitter's identity continued to be a subject of debate until Gallerani's life dates were firmly established in 1992.

Why We Said Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance Heroes

Leonardo Da Vinci was spending his whole life for scientific research and artistic practice, the "Mona Lisa" reflected the painter's observation of nature in a scientific thinking, which was the most prestigious portrait masterpiece in the history of western oil painting. In this painting, Mona Lisa looked very elegant and calm with a meaningful smile. The painter sought to demonstrate the richness of life and multifaceted personality psychology, and studied the smiles of facial muscles and psychological changes and reflections when relaxing from two aspects: anatomy and physiology. He depicted an ideal beauty in a specific character. The hands were portrayed delicate, rich and dynamic. Eyes, mouth and hands were ingeniously combined with soft shadows. The background was also treated properly with difference on the left and right perspective, making the whole picture more vivid.

There was less agreement among different people on the mysterious smile of Mona Lisa for 500 years. Harvard Medical School neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explained in U.S.Science magazine, "The mysterious smile of Mona Lisa is less concerned with the painter's painting techniques, than it is related to the dislocation of the eyes. Her flickering smiles are resulting from our eyes movements combining with the reflection of light. If our attention were solely focused on her mouth, then we would never see her smile. Da Vinci made the use of vague outline in the mouth of Mona Lisa. This approach meant "evaporated like smoke" according to the original Italian literal meaning."

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