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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Mona Lisa |
 | | Her theory suggests that the Mona Lisa was the first official portrait of the new Duchess of Milan, and was in fact painted in spring or summer 1489 (and not 1503 as other sources indicate). | | | The Mona Lisa (Italian, Spanish: La Gioconda; French: La Joconde), less commonly rendered as the Monna Lisa, is an oil painting on poplar wood by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. | | | Little is known about his wife, Lisa Gherardini, except that she was born in 1479 and raised at the family's Villa Vignamaggio in Tuscany, and that she married del Giocondo in 1495. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/M/MO/MON/Mona_Lisa
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| | She says the clues to the Mona Lisa are in the painting itself and in other paintings, diaries and records from the time. | | | A year before the Mona Lisa was stolen, Freud published a short book about Leonardo in which he advanced the theory that the Mona Lisa's smile evoked "the bliss and rapture which had once played on his mother's lips as she fondled him". | | | But as the romantic poets of the 19th century began to be obsessed with the femme fatale, the Mona Lisa was seized on as an ideal of womanhood, her smile and the eyes venerated. |
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http://www.arlindo-correia.com/020602.html
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| | Leonardo DaVinci |
| | Vasari had never seen the Mona Lisa and though it is popular to quote his text on the painting it must be realised he wrote his treatise based entirely upon hearsay. | | | Supposedly this was because Mona Lisa was Leonardo's favourite painting and he was loathe to part with it, however it may also have been because the painting was unfinished. | | | By far the most controversial version of the Mona Lisa is in the Vernon collection in the U.S. This painting clearly shows the columns on either side of the sitter which have been cut off the Louvre example. |
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http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/mona.html
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| | William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive |
| | Squat Mona dreamed she was dancing the cage back in some Cleveland juke, naked in a column of hot blue light, where the faces thrusting up for her through the veil of smoke had blue light snagged in the whites of their eyes. | | | Except her nose, Mona's, had more of a tilt, and she, Angie, didn't have that smear of freckles out to her cheekbones. | | | And Mona had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing, because the system had a cosmetic program that made him look different on the screens, stretched his face a little and made his chin stronger, and he didn't seem to notice. |
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http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/mona_lisa_overdrive
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| | Mona Lisa Images for a Modern World - 12 |
| | As Leonardo's Mona Lisa was a portrait, we cannot assume that he has added to her face a trait of his own, so difficult to express, which she herself did not possess. | | | The first of these is a computer study comparing the physiognomies of the Mona Lisa and a self-portrait drawing of Leonardo, and the second is a "biography" of Leonardo's birth mother, Caterina, the information for which came to the author as a "vision" narrated to her by Leonardo, himself. | | | Without any apparent reference to Freud's contention that the Mona Lisa awoke in its creator a submerged memory of his mother, the novelist claims that the true source of inspiration for the Mona Lisa is the artist's mother, whose original name, according to the author, was Lisa. |
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http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONASV12.htm
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| | artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Mona Takes Tokyo |
| | Fernando Botero's chubby Mona Lisa at the Age of Thirteen (1959) and a wild La Joconde (1948) by Jean Dubuffet are both artists' characteristic portraits. | | | Probably the notorious of all is Marcel Duchamp, who drew a little mustache on a little Mona Lisa postcard and called it "L.H.O.O.Q," which, in French, sounds out "she has a hot in the ass." It has become a classic in its own right; other artists went to copy that one. | | | As a result, in the 20th century, Mona was both a symbol of beauty and an easy target for free-spirited artists. |
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http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/threadwell/threadwell3-13-00.asp
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| | Mona Lisa Facts |
| | The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci between the years 1503-1506. | | | Once a year, the Mona Lisa receives a check-up in which the box surrounding it is opened and the climatic conditions as well as the painting's condition are examined. | | | The Mona Lisa is encased in a 157-by-98 inch box of triplex glass, a gift from the Japanese on the occasion of the painting's 1974 trip to Japan--the last time it left the museum. |
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http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/mona/mona2.html
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| | The landscape behind Mona Lisa is the Alps. | | | There is also a nude painting of an expressionless and unrealistic Mona Lisa - the painter of which is unknown. | | | This explains why the Mona Lisa is still in France and in the Louvre. |
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http://www.museumldv.com/monalisa.htm
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| | News in Science - Mona Lisa's smile may be trick of light - 21/07/2004 |
| | Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, the Mona Lisa, has been fascinating art lovers since her portrait was completed in 1506. | | | Noise that lifted the edges of the mouth resulted in a happier perception of Mona Lisa, while noise that flattened her lips made her look sadder. | | | Based on the workings of peripheral vision, Livingstone's analysis of the smile pointed out that Mona Lisa appears much more cheerful when your gaze falls on the background or her hands than when you look directly at her mouth. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1157246.htm
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| | Art=Design=Invention: Mona Lisa X-Rayed |
| | Both titles, Mona Lisa and La Giaconda, are the name of the sitter and designate her as the wife of Leonardo's patron. | | | Likely the world's most famous and widely reproduced painting, da Vinci's Mona Lisa is currently undergoing high tech exams under microscopes and x-rays for a reported warp in its wood panel support. | | | Worst of all are projections of contemporary gender/identity/Marxist politics onto a 500 year old painting--the actual, female "subject" of the painting (Lisa Gherardini) is known only by the gods from outer space who built the pyramids and produce crop circles, therefore the Mona Lisa can only be a transsexual self-portrait of Leonardo. |
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http://www.art-james.com/archives/mona-lisa-xrayed.aspx
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| | BBC - Science & Nature - Leonardo - Mona Lisa |
| | The Mona Lisa was one of Leonardo's favourite paintings, and he carried it with him until he died. | | | The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, by a former employee who believed the painting belonged in Italy. | | | There are certainly similarities between the facial features of the Mona Lisa and of the artist's self portrait painted many years later. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/gallery/monalisa.shtml
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| | CNN.com - Did Leonardo know Mona Lisa? - Sep 27, 2004 |
| | One of the places where Leonardo and Mona Lisa may have met is the Church of the Santissima Annunziata in the heart of Florence. | | | The documents may prove that Leonardo knew Mona Lisa, but no records to date prove without a doubt that she was also his muse. | | | He came across land and marriage records written in the 1490s which he says prove that Mona Lisa existed -- and that Leonardo's family was closely connected to her husband, Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy silk trader. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/mona.lisa
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| | The Day the Mona Lisa Was Stolen |
| | What Perugia didn't realize was that while the Mona Lisa was probably painted in Italy, Leonardo took it with him to France and sold it to King Francis I for 4,000 gold coins. | | | The source of this story on the Mona Lisa theft is The Art Stealers by Milton Esterow, New York: Macmillan Company, 1966. | | | Pieret had actually stolen these pieces from the Louvre months before the Mona Lisa was stolen. |
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http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/mona/mona.html
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| | Mona Lisa Celebriducks for the Connoisseur |
| | The Mona Lisa's smile is the most intriguing part of the painting. | | | In 1956, an attempt to destroy the Mona Lisa with acid damaged the lower half of the painting. | | | On August 21,1911, Mona Lisa was again stolen from the Louvre, this time, by an Italian thief, who brought the painting to Italy. |
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http://www.beckett.com/celebriducks/mona_lisa/index.asp
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| | Dreams of Decadence - Vampire Fiction - "Mona Lisa" by Warren Lapine |
| | Mona walked over to the painting and gazed at it. | | | Mona was right, with this painting he'd accomplished greatness. | | | She couldn't have known what his reaction to her would be, and she definitely wasn't a groupie. |
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http://www.dnapublications.com/stories/monalisa.htm
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| | Duchamp's Mona Lisa, now property of a Swiss collector, will be exhibited to the public again next March at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. | | | The enigmatic smile is the same as the one in the Mona Lisa. | | | Linde is also convinced that behind Duchamp's Mona Lisa is hidden the artist. |
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http://www.artscienceresearchlab.org/articles/panorama.htm
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| | But the expression on Mona Lisa's face has an emotional aspect to it that the vase lacks: it is a direct reflection of her feeling towards us as the object of her gaze. | | | Though we cannot figure out what Mona Lisa is feeling, and hence what we are feeling towards her, there is definitely one feeling that our encounter with her engenders: that this is no ordinary painting. | | | Though it is very difficult, this is what da Vinci accomplished with Mona Lisa -- her facial muscles reflect a dynamic face in motion, not one of someone statically holding a half-smile. |
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http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dqg/papers/monalisa.htm
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| | CNN.com - Computer decodes Mona Lisa's smile - Dec 16, 2005 |
| | The Mona Lisa has captivated and mystified the art world for centuries. | | | The Mona Lisa -- called La Gioconda in Italian and La Joconde in French -- has captivated and mystified the art world for centuries. | | | Historians have long debated Mona Lisa's identity, with theories ranging from being Da Vinci's mother, a self-portrait or a Florentine prostitute. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/16/mona.lisa.smile
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Mona Lisa 'happy', computer finds |
| | The Mona Lisa features in the opening of Dan Brown's hit novel The da Vinci Code when a Louvre curator is found dead near the painting. | | | Possibly the most famous portrait of all time, Mona Lisa's cryptic expression has intrigued art lovers for five centuries. | | | A computer has been used to decipher the enigmatic smile of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, concluding that she was mainly happy. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4530650.stm
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| | Warping Mona Lisa Nothing to Smile About, Experts Say |
| | Summary Paris's Louvre Museum announced this week that the wood on which the Mona Lisa is painted is bending. | | | Paris's Louvre Museum warned this week that the wood on which the Mona Lisa was painted is bending. | | | Now the mystery of the Mona Lisa is deepening. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0430_040430_monalisa.html
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| | MONA LISA'S HOME PAGE |
| | The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo (not the turtle!!) Da Vinci sometime between the years 1503-1506. | | | The Mona Lisa is painted with what kind of paint? | | | Is the Mona Lisa the world's most famous painting? |
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http://www.montana.edu/4teachers/instcomp/hunts/art/owens/monalisa.html
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock MO-MY |
| | Mona Lisa is a French progressive rock group who owe much of their style to Genesis. | | | Mona Lisa is a French band very much in the dramatic symphonic style of another French band, Ange. | | | As a whole, the album is fine, roughly the same to Mona Lisa as And Then There Were Three was to Genesis, a reasonable compromise between their established style and the current commercial demands. |
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| | Colorful Mona Lisa by Asbjorn Lonvig. |
| | The new one became a Colorful Mona - "mona I". | | | Copyrights concerning use of Mona Lisa as inspiration etc. | | | The first time I was in Paris I was very inspired and made a |
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http://www.lonvig.dk/colorful-mona-liza.htm
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| | Wired 12.10: START |
| | The blended tones soften outlines, hazing the boundaries between Mona's lips and cheeks [A]. | | | In the images where the pixels accidentally enhanced the curvature at the corners of her mouth [E], observers saw Mona as happy. | | | She used a Gaussian blur filter to emphasize the coarse [B] and medium [C] grains, to mimic how you'd see the painting out of the corner of your eye. |
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| | ☼ Mona lizard painting - not Mona Lisa, and Semiramis' cat in The Hanging Gardens. |
| | The Mona Lisa painting, or "La Gioconda" hangs in Paris, in the Louvre and it's painted by Leonardo da Vinci during 1503-1507 with oil color on poplar wood, (that's "poplar" - not "popular") and it measures 53x77 cm, which is not a Golden Rectangle. | | | ☼ Mona lizard painting - not Mona Lisa, and Semiramis' cat in The Hanging Gardens. | | | Many people get to this page when they search for "Where is the Mona Lisa hanging". |
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| | Science Netlinks: Science Updates |
| | Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting has inspired romantic songs and art lovers the world over, who become captivated by the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile. | | | When she looked at the painting a few years ago, Livingstone noticed the Mona Lisa's changing expression. | | | Visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris inevitably make their way up the stairs to the gallery where one of the most famous paintings in western art hangs: the Mona Lisa. |
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http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=163
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| | Mona Lisa Smile (2003) - Kirsten Dunst , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Julia Stiles , Julia Roberts |
| | [Mona Lisa Smile] Julia Roberts, who starred in "Oceans Eleven", "Full Frontal" and "America's Sweethearts", says she prefers working in ensemble casts like the one she shares in "Mona Lisa Smile". | | | Mona Lisa Smile (2003) - Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Julia Roberts | | | Phillip Nakov reviews Mona Lisa Smile, starring Julia Roberts. |
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http://www.countingdown.com/movies/559114
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| | Amazon.com: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: William Gibson |
| | Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. | | | In MONA LISA OVERDRIVE, he mainly succeeds at delivering his vision and an entertaining plot. | | | Even though all the books were great reads, somehow _Mona Lisa Overdrive_ managed to flow together with every click perfect. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553281747?v=glance
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| | Mona Lisa on the Web |
| | It holds thumbnail galleries of 450 parodies, redos, versions and vanalisms of the Mona Lisa, together with 150 other resources, including histories, accounts of the theft and analyses of its incomparable place in world consciousness. | | | This site has more than 600 resources about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece also known as the Gioconda or Joconde. | | | Expand to "Hot Topics", such as her smile and the great 1911 theft, and Art Discussion for art-historical concerns. |
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http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/monalisa
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| | Mona Lisa Smile |
| | Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. | | | "["Mona Lisa Smile"] is a well-made, feminist-anchored, politically correct liberal film that teaches some good, modern day lessons to its femme audience." | | | "Sadly, the predictability factor of Mona is simply off the charts -- you can almost recite the dialogue before it rolls off the students' well-developed palates, and the course it follows is a well-rutted road." |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/MonaLisaSmile-1128264
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| | -- Crudeoils -- |
| | Viewers and art historians alike have commented on the uncanny way in which she follows observers with her eyes. | | | On less frequent occurrences the Mona Lisa will present a less congenial attitude. | | | One Chair A Bar at the Folies Begère Mona Lisa |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Mona Lisa smile secrets revealed |
| | The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1500s, has intrigued art lovers for five centuries because of its subject's mysterious smile. | | | Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University said the smile only became apparent when the viewer looked at other parts of the painting. | | | The painting's smile has kept art lovers guessing |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2775817.stm
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| | Kungsholm - Sea Princess - Victoria - Mona Lisa - Cruise Ship Postcards |
| | Unidentified photograph of Mona Lisa, with initial funnel colours. | | | An official postcard of Mona Lisa, with initial funnel colours. | | | This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Swedish America liner Kungsholm (4), which became the Sea Princess and Victoria in the Princess and PandO fleets. |
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http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PandO_Victoria.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Mona Lisa Overdrive: Books |
| | After reading Mona Lisa Overdrive two times I'm still not sure about the plot of the book. | | | Indeed it's the aching similarities between the artificial reality that Gibson has created and the real thing which make this a work of literature and a thing of beauty. | | | FIVE BIG, FAT, JUICY STARS for Mona Lisa Overdrive |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006480446
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| | Mona Lisa Lives Here ! |
| | Some people call me Mona, and some call me Lisa, and some just say "Hey Gal!" but my real name is Mona Lisa... | | | She only makes appearances to the local residents of Mona Lisa Palace... | | | ALL IMAGES AND WORKS ON THIS SITE ARE COPYRIGHTED 2004 BY Mona Lisa Abbott |
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http://monalisaphoto.com
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| | Mona Lisa (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film which tells the story of a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. | | | It stars Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane and Sammi Davis. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(movie)
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| | Mona Lisa Smile |
| | Mona Lisa Smile takes place in 1953 Wellesley College, where new Art History teacher Ann Willis (Roberts, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Full Frontal) comes hoping to change the world. | | | She's a little too modern for Mona Lisa Smile, if that's possible. | | | The movie is just as preachy and dull if it were written by preachy and dull women. |
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http://www.haro-online.com/movies/mona_lisa_smile.html
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| | Late paintings (1501-20) |
| | From this time dates his portrait of Mona Lisa, his most famous work, which is as well known for its mastery of technical innovations as for the mysteriousness of its legendary smiling subject. | | | In 1502-03 and in 1506-13 he was based in Milan, in 1513 he moved to Rome, but the artistic activity of his later years was chiefly centred in Florence in the years 1500-06. | | | In Florence also Leonardo worked out variations on a theme that fascinated him at this time and presented a great challenge to his skill in composing closely knit groups of figures. |
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http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/leonardo/04
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| | Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance Man Artist |
| | Some people think her mysterious grin meant she was secretly pregnant, but that would be unlikely in conjunction with another theory: that Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait of Leonardo! | | | X-rays of the painting and close comparison with drawings of Leonardo suggest that this may actually be true. | | | The eye, he believed, was the perfect instrument for learning these laws, and the artist the perfect person to illustrate them. |
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http://www.mos.org/leonardo/artist.html
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| | Choose that option and a new file will be created with the image of Mona Lisa. | | | Then use the tools available in Photoshop Elements to transform Mona Lisa. | | | Then launch Photoshop Elements and in the File menu you will see a From Clipboard option. |
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http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/digitalimaging/mona/largemona.html
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| | LEONARDO da Vinci: Mona Lisa |
| | Text about "Mona Lisa" from E.H. Gombrich, "The Story of Art" | | | This is image #5 of 25 on The Artchive's FAVORITES TOUR | | | Use the Image Viewer to study the much larger full-sized image. |
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| | Mona Lisa (opera) - encyclopedia article about Mona Lisa (opera). |
| | Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera. | | | Mona Lisa is an opera by the German composer Max von Schillings on a libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky. | | | The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano that sung the title role. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mona+Lisa+(opera)
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| | art.blogging.la: Mona Lisa's Rubik Smile |
| | Continuing his exploration of the Rubik Cube as both medium and pop culture reference, he has (re)created the Mona Lisa mosaic-style moving her out of the old and into the now. | | | Because the mass destruction of Invader's mosaics in Los Angeles has been upsetting and discouraging to those who enjoy his work, I thought I would post this picture he just sent us for an upcoming show in Europe that will surely put a smile on your face. |
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http://art.blogging.la/archives/2005/09/mona_lisas_rubi.phtml
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