"Edinburgh creates Mona Lisa as you've never seen her" BBC
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Birthday: 1503-1506
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Current
home: The Louvre, Paris, France
Stats: 20 7/8" x 30", oil on poplar wood.
Marital Status: Married to Francesco del Giocondo
since
1495
Working On: Being most celebrated painting in the world
I stay home to watch:
Singers, musicians, jesters
and The Sopranos
Favorite singer: Nat
King Cole
Favorite dish: Savino Sorbet
Prized possessions: *Sfumato, *Chiaroscuro, my new room
Personal hero: Leonardo
Da Vinci
Nobody knows: Why I’m smiling
If I could do it over: I’d have a contract with royalties
I’d give anything to meet: Madonna
My fantasy is: To model for
Versace
The one thing I can’t stand: Paparazzi
If I could change
one thing about myself: I’d be larger
My most irrational act: Being stolen in 1911
Most humbling experience: *L.H.O.O.Q.
The
words that best describe me: Lisa Gherardini, Mona Lisa, La Gioconda
Mona Lisa has been spotted
making the rounds with
Leo da Vinci in Italy and Paris. Ever the trend setters they've
attracted the likes of Raphael,
and a host of other Leo
wanna be's who imitate their trendy styles. Lisa is not into
jewelry or frills, preferring a
more natural look. She doesn't
like to sign autographs and rarely does interviews guarding her
privacy. Leo will sign
autographs, backwards.
*Sfumato is the famous invention
of Da Vinci - light and shade that allow one form to blend in with another leaving something to the imagination. He did this
to the corners of Mona Lisa' mouth and eyes which explains why she may look different and different times.
*Chiaroscuro the distribution
of light and shade in a picture
*L.H.O.O.Q. in 1919 Dada painter
Marcel Duchamp put a mustache and goatee on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. The letters read phonetically in French: Elle
a chaud au cul (she has a hot arse.)
BABYCAKES
WALTER CRONKITE
FIRST LADY
OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY
THE INCREDIABLE WOMAN WHO WITH HER PASSION FOR THE FINE ARTS WAS ENTIRELY RESPONSIABLE
FOR RECEIVING AS MYSTERIOUS AS HERSELF THE PAINTING OF MONA LISA PAINTED BY LEONARD DA VINCI
PRINCESS
ISABELLA OF ARAGON
CRIVELLI VISCONTI
DUCHESS OF MILAN
SFORZA DA VINCI
