Naoto Nakagawa, paintings from the “Mona Lisa Series” (2017–19), acrylic on canvas, each piece 30 x 21 inches, the same dimensions as those of the original “Mona Lisa” (c.1503–19) by Leonardo da Vinci ...
When visitors step into the Louvre, most make a beeline for one small painting. It isn’t the largest, most colorful, or even the most technically complex artwork there. Yet, the Mona Lisa commands ...
The woman in the painting looks back at us with a smile that never quite settles. It is neither cheerful nor cold, neither welcoming nor distant. For more than five centuries, viewers have leaned ...
Benjamin Blake Evemy takes you on a journey through the most interesting and unbelievable heists the art world has seen, starting with the disappearance of the most valuable painting in the world.
Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...
The Louvre Museum, home of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ has a new director. Art historian Christophe Leribault, a veteran museum director ...
It seems the Mona Lisa will never fail to inspire research and lead to discoveries that, though questionable, will never fail to grab headlines and cause every Leonardo expert in the world to weigh in ...
Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...
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