Mona lisa, oil painting on apoplar wood panel by the italian painter, draftsman, sculptor,architect,and engineer leonardo da vinic,probably the world most famous painting....It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519,when leonardo was living in florence, and it now hangs in the louvre in paris,where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the 21ist cetury..............
Before the 1962-63 tour,the painting was asaessed fore insurance at $100 million.. The insurance was not bought..Inatead,more was spent on security..Adjusted for inflation vsing the us consumer price index $100 million in 1962 is around $782 million in 2015 marking it,in the world......
Celebrated later paintings by raphael,le velata (1514-15),continued to borrow from leonordo's painting..Zollner states that "none ot leonardo 's work woukd exert more influence upon the evolution of the genrev that the moba lisa...It became the definitive example of the renaissance portrait and perhaps for this reason in seen not just as the likenesa ofbare person,but also as the embodimentvof an ideal.........
After his death,gherardini became anun..she died in 1542 at the age of 63 and was said to be buried near the sant,or shole convent,s altar.....
In 2014 scientists cobducted a DNA test on bones fond gherardini but the result are still to be released..........
The request may have stirred up bad memories among French officials,given that it was stolen by an Italian.....
That is she or isn't she smile has long fascinated artists and historians.. But in200,harvard neuroscientist DR.margaret livingstone applied a seicnific method to why mona lisa's smile seems to shift.. It's all about where your focus is, and now your brain responds............................
