It is the most famous most expensive and most mysterious painting in the world. Each year millions of people visit the portrait and the louvre. The mona lisa has remained a star among works of art for centuries. Because when the tics attempted to destroy the painting it can only be admired from behind armored glass. But what makes the mona lisa so special. The small painting shows nothing more than a portrait of a woman. Or does it reveal something more than. It was painted by one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived Leonardo Da Vinci. And with monalisa he left behind more than just an image of a woman. Her gaze appears to wander off yet always meets the viewer. She wears no jewelry her clothing is dark as if she were in mourning and yet she smiles mysteriously. Leonardo didnt leave behind any sketches of the portrait. No visible brushstrokes mona lisa appears to be made out of flesh and blood. Ringback d yet her biggest secret remains who was shooting whose portrait is leonardo showing us. Well to solve this puzzle the louvre placed his most famous painting under scientific scrutiny using the most modern techniques. The painting was examined using x. Rays spectroscopy ultraviolet an infrared pictures among other techniques to uncover its secrets. The masters painting technique was examined beyond the surface were corrections made to the painting was anything overpainted did leonardo paint the piece in one session or did he work on it for decades. These questions must be answered in order to resolve the most puzzling question of them all. Who is the woman behind the smiling yet melancholy face. Who was leonardos mona lisa. Is not a portrait. But rather an imaginary image of an ideal beauty. Experts have been wondering this for centuries. There seems to be proof of only 2 explanations but each cancels the other out documentation comes from 2 different chroniclers d but these written records are not compatible with one another. The most accepted theory is based on biography george over sorry according to him the portrait depicts lisa dirge a condom the wife of the florentine silk merchant francesco dodger condo who commissioned the piece in 1503. This contradicts a note by the chronicle antonio to be artists from 1517 in which Leonardo Da Vinci claims to have been commissioned by giuliani dimity. Just like the 2 chronicles contemporary leonardos scholars also have divergent theories. People and an artist dorian from florence believes the officially recognized theory that the painting depicts lisa condo. I believe that play an audio actually painted lisa get out deni the wife of francesco del joconde. Probably around 1503. 00. 23 roman historian robert perry considers a new and revolutionary theory in which the portrayed woman is an entirely different person. I think the painting is connected with grand army. It has nothing to do with morris or with. The 1st clue leads to florence the majority of the great when a song is artists lived and worked here as did Leonardo Da Vinci. Ga over sorry also worked in florence economical the biographies of many italian artists. Next to his work as an architect but sorry documented the biographies of great italian artists today these make up one of the most important foundations of art history. Levitated pure chill leonti architect tortie escort tory italia any was 1st published in 1550 and revise in 1568. Today the original manuscripts are housed in the if its the library. Most of the artists whose lives were sorry chronicle were already dead at the time of the sari researched very carefully. So too with Leonardo Da Vinci on just a few pages bizarrely wrote down his whole life story. In it he also mentions that little painted the portrait of mona lisa for Francesco Derringer condo her husband and its in the possession of king francis the 1st to france. He labored on it for 4 years. And ultimately left it unfinished. These words gave the painting its name. Mona lisa. Who was this mona lisa of whom was sorry what and who was her husband francesco downs a condo. Francesco was a soccer match and good acquired some wealth but wasnt part of florences elite. He was a nouveau riche businessman. Was it really possible that a renowned painter like leonardo except to the commission by an ordinary businessman or did francesco down to conduct and his wife climbed the ranks of society. From. Other countries were going to francesco del ger condo was well known in the city seem pushy medically was nice just an ordinary merchant he was also a public and charismatic figure and regal mom had a lot of answer to pick up. Lisa it out when your lease was very young. And 1st sorry to find as very beautiful to see what i mean to marry her husband also spoke very highly off and it does that mean that in his testaments francesco refers to her as a bona fide a woman if you move in this is an unusual description for a woman getting those who are needy i have yet to find a similar description in other testaments. Are more you know i dont own a feat a woman can signify a noble woman with high principles who works hard and who has a personality. Its going to home dipping she could go and develop a post or solve the. Lisa belgacom though was francescos 3rd wife. The birth of their 2nd child a move into a new home could have been the occasion for the commission portrait. And yet up in told them leonardo only portrayed men and women of nobility these people were interesting to him a star such as himself could choose his own subjects why did he paint lisa dont joconde. Leonardo returned to florence around 1500 tremolando he was 48 years old restless without family and didnt have any large commissions on the horizon. Lou not the one that when playing otto came to florence he didnt have any commissions or work. And we know that portraits are the bread and butter of painters doing it and that is to say they are the simplest commissions and also the best paid so it is easily possible that francesco del joe condo commissions lane auto to portray his wife out of the normal. But doubts arise that a condo family trade register resides in the lucky vs story codell instituto deli no 20 and it is the basis of their tax report. Florence had a highly advanced tax system the socalled catastrophe. As part of this its citizens had to claim all of their incomes and expenditures. In this trade register all movement of money and assets were meticulously recorded. The summary mentions that leonardo received the commission in 1503 so a record of the expensive portrayed must certainly have been made. But in 50 no 3 there is no reference to the expense of a painting. There is no record of a commission to leonardo in the entire trade register. There is also no mention of such a valuable painting in the inheritance. You can imagine how desperately i searched for clues of a commission or payments. Not even in the testament is there mention that this painting existed because i think francesco would have certainly claimed it since it was a painting with a rising and secure value the whole thing is incomprehensible hes begun he knows he of you should. Print just go would have most likely shown the portrayed by the famous painter publicly and would not have risked a bent toward tax evasion. In leonardos records there is also no trace of a commission by francesca money apparently didnt change champs. Friend just goes testament is archived in florences are key of you to start oh there in there is also no mention of the great masters valuable artwork leonardo apparently never delivered the painting to francesco. Most army writes about an incomplete portrait of the mona lisa in the louvre however is completed down to the very last detail. I mean the years surely he except of the commission at a time in which he had no work at that which the mayor introduced himself to the merchant who wanted a pain. Think of his wife and simply agreement then he painted only the head. Of a study he interrupted the work for other commission when he left it all on finished never delivering the painting to the merchant not even the head. And there are no traces of this painting in florence with the traces left by the motion couple must be available in the archives documents or testaments that you do with that the decrease that and yet this painting by leonardo shows up with no way to the. Usual day stanley if we had finished the painting and limited then a record within the family would exist if you know a painting by a Famous Artist like leonardo was a very valuable commodity that while get this. They left me a big getaway superior we know absolutely nothing about this but he. Says that. Hasnt really been lost. As described by her sorry lost is the painting in the louvre a different one. Much about leonardo who seems unexplainable today very few artists have captivated peoples imaginations as he has. One reason for this is that he started so many paintings that he never finished like that of st jerome in the wilderness. Yet these works count among art historys most famous. As with the end a ration of the magi leonardo often lost interest in his paintings after he solved challenges a figuration and composition finishing the pieces became too tedious. This was also the case with the fresco for the council hall of blood so vecchio. It was to become his largest work commissioned by the City Government leonardo chose the battle of hungary ari has his motif. Leonardo received the commission in 1503. 00 the same period during which he worked on lisa condos portrait. Restless as he was leonardo left even the biggest project of florence commissioned incomplete is it plausible that he behaved similarly when when alisa abandoning it only to finish it later most of her remained the it is very likely that blaine otto puts the painting aside. He didnt finish it and never delivered it it was most likely completed at a later time i need to read it not to let a. Z. So i think thats this theory in which the painting was begun in 1503. And finish later is the most plausible and its also the one i personally believe well put in i mean. When did leonardo finish the painting. Lets assume in old age long after he started it. Then leonardo must have carried the painting with him throughout much of his life. If there was such a time span between the start and the completion of the painting then we can determine that with todays modern methods. And again modern technology has a go at the mona lisa. The results show that the color pigments were applied without significant interruption. Using infrared technology historians searched for over painted areas actions. The genius leonardo made hardly a single correction from the 1st brush stroke to the finished piece. The only overpainting occurred on mona lisas left hand here leonardo corrected the gesture of her finger. Aside from that the painting was made in one session an unbelievable achievement by the master. According to our historian alexander pairing these discoveries further confound the mona lisa theory. The council to sue the entire Study Confirms the absurdity of the identity of the loser painting or painting depicting more lisa move would be moved to move the mona lisa you see. Because it was determines that a painterly process was fairly continuous and going to a new release or fall of to. Be armed he would have had to paint it in 2 completely separate stages in that when those who church will clearly be identified with todays methods and tools. Of all the 1st written 4 of them voted to go to lunch of the landscape it would have had to have been new since sandy didnt mention one at all but i know launch of. The great biog. As in another aspect as well. In describing the mona lisa he talks about her eyelashes which could be rendered only by the most delicate of brushes on her brows you witnessed them at their fullest and spices and how they emerge from the pores of her skin and art is not really as one can only imagine. But the mona lisa that hangs in the louvre today has neither eyelashes no eyebrows. These are also not detectable using relief imaging. For sorry one of the main attests to the Mona Lisa Fieri never saw the painting himself. Sadly no larry ruffled the bizarre a didnt have any written sources his biography is based on mia oral accounts that circulated influence. At. Ask lee to libya would have yet trade back if he got it pushed up this means he wrote part of the history of drug condos paltry with the mona lisa or based on such oral accounts the passed from person to person. Who we never saw the painting. He described what he invented that those you do. But from where does the painting in the louvre stand are there 2 portraits one of them lost. This new idea takes us to the end was on the watch prompts. Me another died here in 1519 and the advanced age of 67. The chapel in which he was in tune is located directly next to the king chateau. Deau came to him was by invitation of the french king francis the 1st by them the artistic genius had already achieved cult status. Leonardo lived in a manner next to the chateau called clue using. An incident occurred in the small french manner that steers the mona lisa investigation in an entirely new and revolutionary direction. Leonardo brought 3 paintings with him but wonder today is referred to as the mona lisa a painting of some drum baptist and that was some downloads that he stayed in this manner inclusive where you also had a studio. At the. The chronicler antonio to beatus witnessed cardinal law degree of arrogance visit with leonardo enclosed to say on october the 10th 1517. 00 he relates the 3 paintings he saw at the aging masters one of the works is of a certain Florentine Lady painted from life that was made in honor of the passing of giuliano demented to another one is of the young saint joan the baptist the 3rd of madonna with her child seated on st annas lap the latter was the most perfect of them all. Today the painting of saint and there with maria and baby jesus on her lap is housed in the louvre. So do is the painting the b. Artist described of saint john the baptist. Is the painting that was made for giuliani. Also in the louvre is it the mona lisa. Equired row for the grain tray was commissioned in rome by julie are no more dimiter. As a result of an affair he had with a woman from will be no reality. Rundown or. Your question to get a. d new name surfaces meditating. The ruling family of florence this name is most associated with the renesas period they were rich scrupulous obsessed with power and patrons of the arts. Giuliano domenici was one of the 2 brothers that lived during davinci time. He was a womanizer and to squander. It was charismatic had a powerful name and an influential brother. His brother lived in rome his name was given me to many changed and he had High Aspirations later he became cardinal and finally pope. As pope clear the tent he made history as a sensitive our patron as well as a scrupulous and powerful politician. He strengthened the clergys power and influence over the battling italian city states and had a weakness for the beautiful things in life. Giuliano is extravagant brother arrived in or beano but he was a guest of the class so to carla. Here he had several chambers known as the magnificence quarter. Giuliano. And your mamma was a poet he had been raised by his father lorenzo who was a great writer he wrote poetry amber is interested in women that you havent the slightest interest in politics everyone is fully. Around. Leonis brother was a great politician the exact opposite. That he was wrong about everything and it is great passion was politics. I was an avid hunter. But he made the top dog hen a politician oh w. V. Giovani dimity gene pope leo the 10th took care of his brother julian there throughout his life he also financed his extravagant lifestyle. Giuliano had countless of fast. Food one of these flames had serious consequences. Being there in the muck or region the pulitzer to carlow looms over the town. The tragedy involving giuliano to many that would eventually lead to the mona lisa took place. For the poor but that the most important source is a document that is housed in the library of the university of. This document is a page in a book a foundling the hebrew the he spoke. Records were found in the University Library of a beano regarding a certain politics. A politician would later become cardinal but was poisoned of the age of 24. But he was born an orphan. How did he acquire the name. Who were his parents. For the record document his birth how he became. Im an orphan. And later. The name of his mother also appears. From downey a young woman from beano. Not much is known about but if it could burn dani she was a guest of the blood to do karla by imitation giuliano. It is unclear if she offered him her labors of love if he said used or as recorded by one of the documents was raped. In any case she spent a night because giuliana. And theres likely in voluntarily. But how should he have opposed the rich route. She was plagued with severe remorse after her affair with giuliana. Some sources stated that she was married at the time. When danny fell into a crisis the deep end when she found out that she was with child. A child out of wedlock from a brief encounter in the court of law being no. Good. Then she drew up a terrible plan. She confided in her friend and midwife that she didnt want the child and though she could not take the disgrace. The midwife should kill the new born in case president he dies in childbirth. From danny did in fact dial up real fever. But the midwife didnt take the newborns life. On april the 19th 1511. 00 the night before hes to sunday she dropped the child off on the steps of the sun ticky are a judge and it will be no. The baby wrapped in a white sheet was giuliano so. He had a coin on him as a token of his heritage in the absence of a legitimate heir giuliana de medici recognized him as his son he named him in politics. Giuliani left obinna with his son in politics a move to his brother the pope in rome. Leonardo da vinci resided in the chambers of the vatican where he worked for the medicis during this time. But commissions from the pope response here giuliano must have given him the commission which leonardo writes enclosed with a. Leonardo was to paint a painting to comfort a little politics. Barry you said to your motto paint me have pricked or of a mother that i can gift my some as an image of his mother sat at the laddie and youre free to enter as you imagine at how a portrait of a mother shuttle flight a mere nado painted the painting that we call mona lisa today a little that to be good you. Must have been a great challenge to paint an image of a mother for upon a tear. Since he suffered a similar fate because of politics. He too was an illegitimate child who was recognized by his father. His mother didnt die in childbirth she was his fathers maid and he probably used her dependency on him for labors of love as had giuliano with his mistress friend danny. And leonardo shared a similar fate and this inspired leonardo to paint a painting that up held the memory of a mother and. The painting should lend comfort to younger politician who himself never saw his mother. And out of painted the image of. Bill and so he develops the portraits out of his imagination. And we quote we will now go play in audio we didnt need a model. He was an illegitimate child himself and could easily relate to the feelings of such a child so in a school in this. Juliano belletti change must have known this as lay in our friend. Leonardo took himself back to the time of his childhood. He was born in 1452 on a farm. His birth house still stands today its located in midst of an olive grove near the small Tuscan Village of vinci. The great master got his name from the small italian village. Church with a side chapel on the back tees 3 stands in the center of town. Leonardo was baptized here how memorial stone commemorates that illegitimate leonardo was recognised as a song by his father pineiro da vinci. It was always puzzling why leonardo portrayed the wife of a silk merchant in dark clothing. A silk merchant is proud. Of his colorful fabrics her clothes on the other hand recall mourning and reverie if leonardo painted the image of a woman that had passed away in the dark colors makes sense a smile also becomes explainable since it is directed at her own child. Giuliana de medics he died before the painting was completed. Leonardo took it with him to france where debris artist saw it and took note of it in his travelogue. Mitzi should i use the painting in the loop is certainly not identical to the portraits that leonardo painted of more lisa deformed and more not least the real more lisa lisa delgado condo is the silk merchants wife. But where is the portrait of lisa to conduct as described by the sorry. Trace leads us to germ giacomo couple calls a lie who is said to have had a relationship with the master. Was a lie was a rapscallion but leonardo liked him anyway. He accompanied the master through his life for many travels and was his studio assistant. Before on luna several months or weeks before they an audio left for france in 1516 sylar i returned to his hometown of melana sallai not. My long term son im up all sort of its all going to be on the occasion he must have received several paintings from leonard all. Slow from presumably incomplete works. Given false inside the painting appears in his state that is referred to as joconde. Love to. Conduct a painting called to conduct this is how it appears in his estate. An incomplete work of the great Leonardo Da Vinci was very valuable to sell high. So lawyer director glee. Could have completed its rights. For luna he was a painter trained by leonardo many paintings are attributed to him. He could have also sold them underlayer not as name for a lot of money from coming. But that never happened so live died under mysterious circumstances just a few years after leonardos own death. The incomplete portrayed of lisa condor was in solace a state along with leonardos painting lay down the swan. Both of these paintings were lost. In all likelihood it is the imaginary ideal image of a mother that hangs in the louvre commissioned by giuliani in many cheap. We must say goodbye to the mona lisa. It is the most famous painting in the wild. None other has been studied more tharani all more often now the mona lisa has revealed its true face. The same face was found over and over again beneath each of the coats of paint the face with its loving gaze and its comforting smile the image of a. Good. Numbers of corona virus infections in Meat Processing plants. Crude treatment of livestock transformed into cross europe. Terrible living and what conditions for employees. How toxic is the meat industry. Global 3000. And 90 minutes on d w. This is some notes story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problem. His credo no chemicals. His wife laura bush 46. Are blocked up. 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