La Joconde

by Belinda Low

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16.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

La Joconde

Artist

Belinda Low

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Painting - Mixed Media On Canvas

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A very ambitious work indeed! Had always wanted to paint her and now with stay home...Can you tell the difference between this vs the original? I had inadvertantly or switched something on her face...Time spent on this - approx 2 days. I liked the way landscapes were added as a background for paintings...There are people who adopted the notion that this work was imaginery by Leonardo or it could also be his face - that he had imagined himself to look like this as a woman?! Whatever it is, this work fascinates me in some way and this is my version aside from many others as you can read about in the link.
Speculations about Mona Lisa -->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculations_about_Mona_Lisa

Although the sitter has traditionally been identified as Lisa del Giocondo, a lack of definitive evidence has long fueled alternative theories. During the last years of his life, Leonardo spoke of a portrait "of a certain Florentine lady done from life at the request of the magnificent Giuliano de' Medici." No evidence has been found that indicates a link between Lisa del Giocondo and Giuliano de' Medici, but then the comment could instead refer to one of the two other portraits of women executed by Leonardo.

Comparison to drawing sometimes identified as Leonardo's self-portrait

Leonardo's self-portrait obtained by stereoscopic observation
The artist Susan Dorothea White has interpreted the masculine proportions of Mona Lisa's cranial architecture in her anatomical artworks Anatomy of a Smile: Mona's Bones (2002) and Mona Masticating (2006).[26] Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs suggests that the Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait. She supports this theory with the results of a digital analysis of the facial features of the woman in the painting and those of the famous Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk. However, the drawing on which Schwartz based the comparison may not be a self-portrait.[27]

For Sigmund Freud the famous half-smile was a recovered memory of Leonardo's mother.[28] In 1994 Leonardo's biographer Serge Bramly wrote, "there are about a dozen possible identifications of the sitter, all more or less defensible ... Some people have suggested that there was no model at all, that Leonardo was painting an ideal woman."[29]

Isabella of Aragon, Giulio Romano (School of Raphael), Doria Pamphilj Gallery
In 2004, historian Giuseppe Pallanti published Monna Lisa, Mulier Ingenua (published in English as Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model).[30] The book gathered archival evidence in support of the traditional identification of the model as Lisa. According to Pallanti, the evidence suggests that Leonardo's father was a friend of del Giocondo: "The portrait of Mona Lisa, done when Lisa del Giocondo was aged about 24, was probably commissioned by Leonardo's father himself for his friends as he is known to have done on at least one other occasion."[31][32] In 2007, genealogist Domenico Savini identified the princesses Natalia and Irina Strozzi as descendants of Lisa del Giocondo.[33] Scan data obtained in 2004 suggested that the painting dated from around 1503 and commemorated the birth of the Giocondo's second son.[34][35]

In 2011, art historian Silvano Vinceti claimed longtime apprentice (and possible male lover) to Leonardo, Salaì, was the inspiration and figure for the painting.[36]

In 2005 Heidelberg University academics discovered notes scribbled into the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503.[37] These notes state that Leonardo is working "on the head of Lisa del Giocondo". This is seen by some as confirmation that a certain Lisa del Giocondo has been the sitter for the Mona Lisa. However, these notes offer no description of the painting or drawing and could be attributed to any female portrait of that time.

In 2011, after the discovery of old documents that indicated that Lisa del Giocondo was buried beneath a convent in Florence, an excavation was performed.[38] On May 20, 2011, the skull and bones of a woman speculated to be Lisa were found.[39]

In 2014, Angelo Paratico suggested that Leonardo's mother (probably Mona Lisa) was a Chinese slave. It has also been suggested that she was a Middle Eastern slave.[40]

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