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How Did Leonardo Da Vinci Show The Mood Of Mona Lisa

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Leonardo Da Vinci is a painter of many famous paintings. Leonardo Da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in a farmhouse nestled amidst the undulating hills in the Italian region of Tuscany. Da Vinci was the epitome of a “renaissance man”. After brief stays in Mantua, he returned to France and worked as a military engineer. Leonardo moved near Amboise in France, where he died on May 2, 1519. Da Vinci is not just a painter, he also worked as a scientist and was an inventor. Leo applies his skills as a scientists, engineer, and architect to every aspect of his life, including art work. He creates very dramatic works of art. Leonardo Da Vinci would get bored at times and often be compelled by new objects. Leo used a lot of religious figures throughout …show more content…

Many people debated whether Mona Lisa is happy or sad. According to one credible source “It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested by the word "gioconda" in Italian” (The Mona Lisa, 2011-present, Para. 3), but there are a lot of articles that debate back and forth about her significant smile. Leonardo Da Vinci uses warm and bright colors to show that Mona is happy but calm. Mona Lisa is painted with a sitter’s chest. Sitters chest is a position that is upright and proper. The nature of the painting also plays a role in the mood of the painting. Nature can symbolize many different things. Da Vinci uses it in this painting to give it a positive energy and to symbolise peace. The mouth often symbolizes the truth about a person and their feelings, and to most viewers, The Mona Lisa painting gives off mixed emotions. According to PBS “...not only of the Italian Renaissance, but also of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries – if you look at Picasso, at everyone you want to name, all of them were inspired by this painting. Thus it is sort of the root, almost, of occidental portrait painting” (PBS, para. 1). Soon after Leonardo painted this painting with oil paint and on a piece of wood, every painter viewers look at was truly inspired by his artwork and

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