Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa  - copy??? All about Mona Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa wascopied by other artists and his students starting almost as soon as it was made in the first decades of the 16th century. Some of them have been advanced as Leonardo originals, at least in part  and others have always been known to be copies. One of these known copies is in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Before restoration Prado experts thought it was painted relatively early in the 16th century by an anonymous artist, but with its black painted background, bright red sleeves, and relatively flat shadowing compared to the velvety depth of da Vinci’s original, the Prado’s Mona Lisa didn’t get much attention. They also thought the wood was oak, which was used by northern European artists. Using infrared reflectography, they then found that underneath that dull black background was a beautiful Tuscan landscape almost identical to the one behind Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. There are documentary sources that attest to Leonardo having his students paint alongside him in the studio, but this is the first time we have IR evidence that strongly indicates contemporaneous painting. Conservators have spent the past year removing the black overpaint — probably added in the 18th century to make it match other pieces with a black background in a gallery setting. The copy is in the final stages of conservation. It will be displayed at the Prado in a few weeks, then it will go on loan to the Louvre for its exhibition with Leonardo’s Saint Anne (March 19 – June 25) where it will be back in the same room with Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for the first time in 500 years or so. Isleworth Mona Lisa The Isleworth Mona Lisa is one of many paintings based closely onLeonardo da Vinci’sMona Lisa. Though insufficiently examined, the painting is claimed by some to be partly an original work of Leonardo dating from the early 16th century. Shortly beforeWorld War I, English art collector Hugh Blaker discovered the painting in the home of aSomersetnobleman in whose family it had been for nearly 100 years. This discovery led to the conjecture that Leonardo painted two portraits of Lisa del Giocondo: the famous one inThe Louvre, and the one discovered by Blaker, who bought the painting and took it to his studio inIsleworth,London, from which it takes its name. According to Leonardo’s early biographerGiorgio Vasari, Leonardo had started to paint Mona Lisa in 1503, but “left it unfinished”. However, a fully finished painting of a “certain Florentine lady” surfaces again in 1517, shortly before Leonardo’s death and in his private possession. The latter painting almost certainly is the same that now hangs in the Louvre.   Based on this contradiction, supporters of theauthenticityof the Isleworth Mona Lisa claim it to be the unfinished Mona Lisa, made at least partially by Leonardo and originally handed over to its commissioner, and the Louvre Mona Lisa a later version of it, made by Leonardo for his own use. The painting is wider than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, having columns on either side which also appear in some other versions. The Isleworth Mona Lisa is framed by two columns on each side of the picture. The Louvre painting is narrower and has no columns, but has the projecting bases on either side, suggesting that the picture was original framed by columns but has been trimmed. However, experts who examined the Mona Lisa in 2004-2005 stated that the original painting has not been trimmed. The Louvre’s Mona Lisa Also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519 and bought by king Francis I of France. It is now the property of the French State and it is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman, Lisa del Giocondo, whose facial expression has been frequently described as enigmatic. The ambiguity of the subject’s expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. Little is known about Lisa’s life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior.  The twist and Mystery of Mona. If the pillars was not cut out in the Louvre’s Mona Lisa, why did Leonardo add them at all. In the Isleworth’s Mona Lisa which may have be started or partially painted by Leonardo he has added the pillars to complete a balance composition. Now the Pardo’s Mona Lisa is painted the same as the Louvre’s Mona minus the pillars. If it was painted by a student of Leonardo, he had to be painted while Da Vinci use it as a study work. It makes more since that the Isleworth would be painted by the student with Leonardo’s hand helping. Then the pillars are painted in the work. Now getting back to Pardo’s Mona Lisa, it would have been painted after the Louvre’s Mona Lisa was cut down to fit the frame it is now which is from a later period. We may never know the truth……. Interesing Facts on the Louvre’s Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa is Lisa Gherardini  a wife of a well to do silk merchant, Francesco del Giocondo.Was painted between 1503 to 06.Her no. in the Louvre is 779 of 6000 paintingsKnown in France as La Joconde, in Italy as La Gioconda, everywhere elseas the Mona Lisa.The last time the Mona Lisa was here in the U.S., 1963.Stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and was recovered in 1913. It hung in the King’s bathroom after Leonardo’s death.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa  - copy???

All about Mona

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa wascopied by other artists and his students starting almost as soon as it was made in the first decades of the 16th century. Some of them have been advanced as Leonardo originals, at least in part  and others have always been known to be copies. One of these known copies is in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Before restoration

Prado experts thought it was painted relatively early in the 16th century by an anonymous artist, but with its black painted background, bright red sleeves, and relatively flat shadowing compared to the velvety depth of da Vinci’s original, the Prado’s Mona Lisa didn’t get much attention. They also thought the wood was oak, which was used by northern European artists.

Using infrared reflectography, they then found that underneath that dull black background was a beautiful Tuscan landscape almost identical to the one behind Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.

There are documentary sources that attest to Leonardo having his students paint alongside him in the studio, but this is the first time we have IR evidence that strongly indicates contemporaneous painting.

Conservators have spent the past year removing the black overpaint — probably added in the 18th century to make it match other pieces with a black background in a gallery setting.

The copy is in the final stages of conservation. It will be displayed at the Prado in a few weeks, then it will go on loan to the Louvre for its exhibition with Leonardo’s Saint Anne (March 19 – June 25) where it will be back in the same room with Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for the first time in 500 years or so.

Isleworth Mona Lisa

The Isleworth Mona Lisa is one of many paintings based closely onLeonardo da Vinci’sMona Lisa. Though insufficiently examined, the painting is claimed by some to be partly an original work of Leonardo dating from the early 16th century.

Shortly beforeWorld War I, English art collector Hugh Blaker discovered the painting in the home of aSomersetnobleman in whose family it had been for nearly 100 years. This discovery led to the conjecture that Leonardo painted two portraits of Lisa del Giocondo: the famous one inThe Louvre, and the one discovered by Blaker, who bought the painting and took it to his studio inIsleworth,London, from which it takes its name.

According to Leonardo’s early biographerGiorgio Vasari, Leonardo had started to paint Mona Lisa in 1503, but “left it unfinished”. However, a fully finished painting of a “certain Florentine lady” surfaces again in 1517, shortly before Leonardo’s death and in his private possession. The latter painting almost certainly is the same that now hangs in the Louvre.

 

Based on this contradiction, supporters of theauthenticityof the Isleworth Mona Lisa claim it to be the unfinished Mona Lisa, made at least partially by Leonardo and originally handed over to its commissioner, and the Louvre Mona Lisa a later version of it, made by Leonardo for his own use.

The painting is wider than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, having columns on either side which also appear in some other versions. The Isleworth Mona Lisa is framed by two columns on each side of the picture.

The Louvre painting is narrower and has no columns, but has the projecting bases on either side, suggesting that the picture was original framed by columns but has been trimmed. However, experts who examined the Mona Lisa in 2004-2005 stated that the original painting has not been trimmed.

The Louvre’s Mona Lisa

Also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519 and bought by king Francis I of France. It is now the property of the French State and it is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman, Lisa del Giocondo, whose facial expression has been frequently described as enigmatic. The ambiguity of the subject’s expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.

Little is known about Lisa’s life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior.

 The twist and Mystery of Mona.

If the pillars was not cut out in the Louvre’s Mona Lisa, why did Leonardo add them at all. In the Isleworth’s Mona Lisa which may have be started or partially painted by Leonardo he has added the pillars to complete a balance composition.

Now the Pardo’s Mona Lisa is painted the same as the Louvre’s Mona minus the pillars. If it was painted by a student of Leonardo, he had to be painted while Da Vinci use it as a study work.

It makes more since that the Isleworth would be painted by the student with Leonardo’s hand helping. Then the pillars are painted in the work. Now getting back to Pardo’s Mona Lisa, it would have been painted after the Louvre’s Mona Lisa was cut down to fit the frame it is now which is from a later period.

We may never know the truth…….

Interesing Facts on the Louvre’s Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is Lisa Gherardini  a wife of a well to do silk merchant, Francesco del Giocondo.

Was painted between 1503 to 06.

Her no. in the Louvre is 779 of 6000 paintings

Known in France as La Joconde, in Italy as La Gioconda, everywhere else
as the Mona Lisa.

The last time the Mona Lisa was here in the U.S., 1963.

Stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and was recovered in 1913.

It hung in the King’s bathroom after Leonardo’s death.

  • February 6
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