The document discusses the famous painting the Mona Lisa. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Renaissance period in Italy between 1503-1519. The Mona Lisa portrays Lisa Gherardini and is housed at the Louvre museum in Paris, France, where it has its own room and special security measures due to an infamous theft in 1911 when it was missing for two years. It remains one of the most famous and visited works of art in the world today.
The document discusses the famous painting the Mona Lisa. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Renaissance period in Italy between 1503-1519. The Mona Lisa portrays Lisa Gherardini and is housed at the Louvre museum in Paris, France, where it has its own room and special security measures due to an infamous theft in 1911 when it was missing for two years. It remains one of the most famous and visited works of art in the world today.
The document discusses the famous painting the Mona Lisa. It was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Renaissance period in Italy between 1503-1519. The Mona Lisa portrays Lisa Gherardini and is housed at the Louvre museum in Paris, France, where it has its own room and special security measures due to an infamous theft in 1911 when it was missing for two years. It remains one of the most famous and visited works of art in the world today.
Here is it what is this painting called? Aha the Mona Lisa, this video is about the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a painting from the Renaissance period in Italy. The Renaissance period was amazing time for arts, science and culture in Europe. It was painted by someone you may have heard of his name was Leonardo da Vinci. Here is that Leonardo Da Vinci made of himself. Yeah, Leonardo Da Vinci was an incredible inventor, scientist and artist. He kind of did at all he was like the Renaissance champion. Hey look at this here is a statue Leonardo Da Vinci, He painted The Mona Lisa sometime in the early 1500s that a long time ago. All right, so this guy Leonardo Da Vinci painted this amazing work of arts the Mona Lisa and happened during a special time known as the Renaissance, Now you may have guessed this but The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a real person, her name was Lisa Del Gioconda. Her husband commissioned the painting Leonardo Da Vinci. He never got paid for the Mona Lisa and did not finish the painting until years later when he was living in France. It has remained in France since then and today it is owed by country of France. So The Mona Lisa will never be sold and remains one of the greatest art treasures in the world. Ready for some wonderful news you can go see the Mona Lisa that is right it is kept in a museum called La Louvre. Can you say it is French it is a little tricky la Louvre. It now has its own room and they make sure it stays safe. You see something happened to the Mona Lisa back in 1911 that was over 100 years ago someone who worked at the museum La Louvre stole the Mona Lisa. He took the Mona Lisa his coat and left. People were outraged, here is a picture of what the wall look like without the Mona Lisa the wall is so sad with that gap oh my goodness. Thankfully the thief caught after two years of being missing, the Mona Lisa was back at La Louvre. Everyone was so excited that the Mona Lisa was back and that made the Mona Lisa even more famous. There is so much about this painting to love, one thing people often notice about the Mona Lisa is that smile of hers. She looks happy. It is just a shape that Lisa Del Giocondo never saw what the painting finally looks like. She probably would have liked it. We want to share one more fact about Leonardo Da Vici masterpiece, did you know the Mona Lisa was painted on a wooden panel? that is right, a wooden penal that means the thief was hiding a penal of wood in his coat the Mona Lisa probably the most famous painting in the history was painted on a wooden panel that is pretty cool. Look at that wooden panel, it is nice but it is not the Mona Lisa, let’s be honest okay, it is not the Mona Lisa.
(British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 New Readings) Neil Mulholland - The Cultural Devolution - Art in Britain in The Late Twentieth Century-Ashgate Publishing (2004)