The Mona Lisa

             

            Hi readers this my new blog entry and it's all about Mona Lisa. Who is Mona Lisa?  The Million dollar question in the whole world, "who is Mona Lisa?". Why did  Leonardo da Vinci created this beautiful painting? What is the name of the person on the painting of Leonardo da Vinci ? There is a lot of questions to be made in this topic but I'm just going to answer a few. Let's start in the name of the person on the painting of Leonardo da Vinci. The name of the person on the painting is Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo. Lisa was from a well-known family known through Tuscany and Florence and married to Francesco Del Giocondo who was a very wealthy silk merchant. The work was to celebrate their home’s completion, as well as a celebration of the birth of their second son. Not until 2005 was the identity of Mona Lisa‘s subject fully understood, though years of speculation have suggested the true identity of the painting’s subject.

            The Mona Lisa is famous for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons, of course, for the popularity of the painting is the artist himself. Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps the most recognized artist in the world. Not only was Da Vinci an artist, but he was also a scientist, inventor, and a doctor. His study of the human form came from the study of actual human cadavers. Because of his ability to study from the actual form of the human, he was able to draw and paint it more accurately than any other artist of his time. Well, When centuries after Lisa's death, Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. Some information about Lisa she was born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior.

          According to the researchers at Heidelberg University, scribbled notes in the margin of a book 500 years old are the evidence that establishes the identity of the woman with the strange half-smile. “It's Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Giocondo a Florentine merchant, whose portrait hangs in the Louvre museum in Paris,” the media reported on Tuesday, quoting lead researcher Viet Probst as saying. Many have long supposed La Gioconda, as she was also known, was the sitter, from comments made by Giorgio Vasari in 1550. But Vasari's identification was made 50 years after Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa, and, the university said he was noted for elaborating the truth. Through all the questions about Mona Lisa there is still question to be made in this painting and an answer through all of those question. And also I almost forgot the the location were Mona Lisa is been created is in  Musée du Louvre, Paris. And it has a dimension of 77 cm × 53 cm (30 in × 21 in). And Leonardo da Vinci  used oil on poplar in this painting. Well, This all I can say for now see you to my next blog entry. :)