Stories behind The Famous Mona Lisa Portrait

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If I speak of the name, Mona Lisa, you will not be unfamiliar. She is a woman in the portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, becoming a household person. Mona is the Italian abbreviation and respectful address in Renaissance, so the literal translation of the portrait, Mona Lisa, should be "Mrs Lisa".
This painting represents the highest artistic achievement of Da Vinci, succeeded in shaping an urban middle-class lady's image in the rising period of capitalism. Her posture in the painting is elegant with subtle smile; mysterious background shows deep boundless scene, incisively and vividly playing the painter’s brushwork of that unique misty "aerial perspective". The painter sought to achieve a clever union between rich character's inner feelings and her beautiful appearance, emphatically grasping accurate and implicative dialectical relationship in particular for feeling-expressing key parts like eyes and mouth in human face in the corner of his lips etc. The realm of romantic charm covered Mona Lisa's enchanting smile with a kind of mystery dream which is called "mysterious smile" by many art historians.
Some scholars try to discuss why different people have different feeling about this smile. These theories are from the actual figures and feeling of Mona Lisa as well as the scientific side. Some say, the Mona Lisa smile only can be seen when squinting. Some argue that the smile is so unpredictable because it takes advantage of the people in the visual disturbance. In addition to smile, what’s more important is, this painting expresses the emotion and social background of Da Vinci’s period. Initially, it is the mysterious smile that sometimes makes people feel gentle and happy, and sometimes serious, sometimes with slightly...

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...nardo Da Vinci has never finished the painting, but constantly modified until his death. Therefore, it is likely to be the painter asked her for adjustment and in the later modifying process changed Mrs Lisa's hair style and other details.
Today, Mona Lisa is stored within the Louvre museum in France for public viewing. No matter the lucky visitors who have a chance to glance at Mona Lisa, or fans who enjoy themselves so much as to forget to leave, people will be attracted by her unique charm without exception. Legend says, staring at this picture, we will produce the Mona Lisa syndrome proposed by an Italian art historian Vezzosi Alessandro, referring to intoxicate from Mona Lisa’s smile, and her smile also becomes more and more mysterious. Countless mysteries hide in Mona Lisa. Although there are many people have made a research on her, it is now still murky.

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