Jos Manuel Casahonda Mrquez 1*C L.N.

9 Painting Masterpieces

The Mona Lisa The "Mona Lisa" (also known as La Giaconda) is a 16th-century portrait by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the best-known artworks of all time. The painting's fame increased after its theft from the Louvre on August 21st, 1911. Additionally the expression of the figure sitting for the portrait is often described as enigmatic, leading to a great deal of speculation.

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's inspiration came from a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival style with a distinctive upper window and a decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter. The figures were modeled by the artist's dentist and sister. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron mimicking 19th century Americana and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity.

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (also called Napoleon Crossing the Alps, despite the existence of another more painting with that name) is 18481850 oil on canvas portrait, Napoleon Bonaparte, by French artist Hippolyte Delaroche. The painting depicts Bonaparte leading his army through the Alps on a mule, a journey Napoleon and his army of soldiers made in the spring of 1800, in an attempt to surprise the Austrian army in Italy. The two main versions of this painting that exist are in the Louvre in Paris and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England. Queen Victoria also obtained a reduced version of it.

Sor (Sister) Juana Ins de la Cruz (12 November 1651 17 April 1695), fully Juana Ins de Asbaje y Ramrez de Santillana, was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire, she is considered today a Mexican writer, and stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican Literature in the Spanish language. Juana Ins de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez was born insane Miguel Nepantlanow called Nepantla de Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz in her honornear Mexico City. She was the illegitimate of a Spanish Captain, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje, and a Criollo woman, Isabel Ramirez. Her father, according to all accounts, was absent from her life. She was baptized December 2 and described on the Baptismal

rolls as "a daughter of the Church."