Sharjah: Maha Adel
“Mona Lisa” is a sixteenth-century half-length painting of a woman believed to be Lisa Giocondo, by the Italian artist, architect, and sculptor Leonardo da Vinci, who painted it during the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci finished it with oil paint and black poplar wood paneling. This painting is the property of the French government, as it hangs on the wall of the Louvre Museum, behind a bullet-resistant glass panel, in a climate-controlled environment. Because of the value and importance of this painting in the history of art in the world, this painting was described as “the most famous artwork in the history of art, and the most artistic work that is written regarding, sung regarding, and visited.” It was also described as “the most simulated artwork.” Cynical in the world.
Today, Mona Lisa is the most famous work of art in the world. Where the number of its visitors reaches six million visitors during one year (80% of the visitors to the Louvre Museum), but Mona Lisa did not enjoy this fame until the beginning of the twentieth century; At that time it was just one of many highly regarded paintings. With the beginning of the nineteenth century, people began praising Da Vinci and it was believed that he was a genius, and then Mona Lisa’s fame began to grow gradually at the beginning of the mid-nineteenth century. The reason for her fame is due to several different reasons, the most important of which is her smile, which was described as mysterious and vague. Where many people, such as Sigmund Freud, Harvard University professors, and countless numbers of viewers, were baffled, in addition to that, his use of the method of drawing with a one-point perspective in the background, and in addition to the technical composition of this painting in general, although the confirmed and accurate facts regarding the painting are few, but According to Vasari’s biography of Leonardo, it states that da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa when Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy Florentine silk merchant, entrusted him with the task of painting his wife Lisa Giocondo in 1503 during the Italian Renaissance.
