In the Louvre there is such a treasure of the town hall, although it is not large, but it allows the Louvre to make a whole wall for it to display, in front of this work, there are always rows of spectators.
Louvre
According to incomplete statistics, basically everyone who goes to the Louvre will stand in front of this painting for a while. Today, the girl in the painting has become the most well-known woman in Italy, and when people mention Renaissance painting, their name is bound to flash in their minds- The Mona Lisa, and his author, Leonardo da Vinci, is also a household name. The Mona Lisa was the pinnacle of da Vinci's artistic development and the pinnacle of Renaissance art. Let's walk into this mysterious painting today and explore it together!
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Is Mona Lisa's smile happy?
Everyone who sees the painting asks the same question: Who is the prototype in the painting? According to extant sources, the Mona Lisa in the painting was the wife of a Florentine. She sits quietly in the painting with her hands together naturally, her head slightly turned, looking at the world outside the painting. It is said that painting can only express stillness, not movement; it can only express the moment, not the process. But Da Vinci's Mona Lisa looks a little dynamic, as if it will change on its own, and you look into her eyes, no matter where you stand, it seems to be looking at you.
Looking at her smile again, everyone will feel differently. Some say it's a happy smile, some say it's a melancholy laugh, some say it's a grudging laugh, and some say it's a mocking laugh. Sometimes you feel as if she's smiling and saying Hello to you, but sometimes you feel like she's saying to you very coldly, "Don't come over."
Later, a university in the Netherlands used "emotion recognition software" to analyze her laughter to contain 83% of happiness and some other emotions, according to this data, people think that Mona Lisa's smile is happy and happy, so people later simply named it "Mona Lisa's Smile". However, it is estimated that the people in the painting could not imagine that her casual smile would make such waves in the world.
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Where did mona Lisa's eyebrows go?
Some people say that shaved eyebrows was popular among European women in that period, while others said that due to the age of the Mona Lisa, the paint faded, or someone accidentally wiped off the mona Lisa's eyebrows and eyelashes while cleaning the surface of the painting.
However, the first theory soon broke freely, and people used high technology to finally find a "trace of eyebrow" on the left eyebrow of the Mona Lisa, although there was only one, but it was still a very important discovery. This also proves that the Mona Lisa actually has eyebrows.
In addition to the above two points, what is even more amazing and incredible is that when the researchers at Bell Labs in the United States overlapped "Mona Lisa's Smile" with a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci himself on the computer, they were surprised to find that the eyes, hairline, and nose of the two were miraculously overlapped!
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
It is said that there are 24 mysteries about the "Mona Lisa" paintings, which have been studied and demonstrated for many years, but there has never been a clear answer, and under the superposition of various bizarre stories, the Mona Lisa has become more and more mysterious, becoming the most mysterious and irreplaceable painting in the history of art today. Art always seems to be like this, it is based on life, but it is always higher than life. Everyone has different views on art, and I think that's why art is always so fascinating.