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7 Unsolved Mysteries of the Art World




The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is considered one of the most important paintings in the Western world. And some wonder if it s Caravaggio s tacit admission of killing a man. Alonso de Mendoza/Wikimedia/Public Domain
For centuries people have wondered who was the model for Leonardo da Vinci s Mona Lisa and what was the reason for her smile. And why do her eyes seem to follow you around? Some scientists think that thanks to spatial frequency, the smile changes depending on where you look. And as for the model, some think she was the wife of a wealthy patron or that Leonardo even painted himself in the portrait. But the Mona Lisa is just one of the many mysteries in the art world. Here are seven other notable unsolved art mysteries that might be a little less familiar. ....

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Artist Yan Pei-Ming makes vast pandemic painting inspired by plague scenes of the Isenheim altarpiece


Pandémie (2020)
Photo: Clérin-Morin; © Yan Pei-Ming, ADAGP, Paris, 2021
The Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming will unveil next month a vast painting focused on the Covid-19 pandemic that draws directly on the Isenheim altarpiece, a masterpiece of religious art painted between 1512 and 1516 by the German artist Matthias Grünewald.
Yan’s work, entitled
Pandémie (2020), will be shown at the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, France, as part of his first retrospective (
In the Name of the Father, 2 April-6 September; subject to Covid-19 restrictions). The coronavirus-themed painting, which shows the artist standing over a corpse in a body bag, is a pendant piece in dialogue with the medieval altarpiece housed at the museum. ....

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