|
|
|
1500-1508
The return to Florence
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
|
|
|
The painting (c.1503-15) in the Louvre is a
"cumulative" work in the Vincian sense: extremely
subtle in descriptive detail, it evokes the essence
of nature, diffused through space and time.
|
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
c. 1503-5
Musee du Louvre, Paris
|
|
|
|
|
|
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
c. 1503-5
Musee du Louvre, Paris |
|
|
|
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
c. 1503-5
Musee du Louvre, Paris |
The proverbial smile, echoes of which are to be found in other
works by the mature Leonardo, bears a suggestion both of attention
and detachment, creating an unreal, abstract atmosphere.
|
|
|
|
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
c. 1503-5
Musee du Louvre, Paris |
In the right-hand part of the landscape the bridge at
Buriano (Arezzo) has been identified. Any topographical reference,
however, is secondary, as the landscape has a universal
significance.
|
|
________________________
MONALISAMANIA
____
|
|
Salaino, Mono Vanna,
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
This is based on studies by Leonardo.
|
Salaino, Mona Lisa Nude, 1515
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Casimir Malevic,
Composition with Mono Lisa. Partial Eclipse of the Sun,
1914,
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.
|
Marcel Duchamp,
L.H.O.O.Q. Ready Made, 1919.
The Mona Lisa has divided the public, some loving the work,
others hating it.
|
| |
|
Fernando Botero Mona Lisa 1977)
|
 Salvador Dali. Self Portrait as Mona
Lisa. 1954
Photographic elements by Philippe Halsman
|
|
| |
|
Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa
|
|
|
|
Andy Warhol, Two
Golden Mona Lisas C,1980
|
Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, 1963
|
|
|
Leger
|
Kelly McGuire
|
|
|
Roxanne Holloway
Mona Lisa Strangeness
|
|
|
Kite
|
|
|
Eland
|
Ocampe
|
|
|
Jean-Pierre Khazem
|
Jean-Pierre Khazem (installation)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
