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    AS91487 3.6 Examine the different values placed on art works Mona Lisa – Leonardo Da Vinci 1506 - The Mona Lisa, 1503 - 1506, painted on poplar wood (77 x 53cm) with oil paint. This composition was created by Leonardo Da Vinci, a Quattrocento artist of the Italian Renaissance between the years of 1503 - 1506. The Mona Lisa is unquestionably acclaimed, with great artistic merit and value, to be the most highly revered, renowned painting. This form of art is a portrait, in which Leonardo Da Vinci

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    ART HISTORY 3.6, EXAMINE VALUES PLACED ON ARTWORKS Introduction Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mona Lisa established a new type of portraiture; da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa over the time period of 1503-1507, during the height of the Renaissance. The Mona Lisa is thought to be a portrait depicted of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The work itself is s a half-length portrait of a woman, which has been acclaimed to be the best known and the

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    ‘what art should be’ and ‘how it should be made’ . He himself was intrigued by the concept of a fourth dimension. He wasn’t just a painter but also a sculptor and writer. He always saw art as evolving and creating new things. Duchamp reproduced “Mona Lisa” in 1919 as just a spoof, but it shocked the people of that time and its final outcome gave birth to a whole new form of Art. The reproduction by Duchamp was titled “L.H.O.O.Q.”, which he describes it is as “She has an hot ass” , is as follows:

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    time (World Encyclopedia 46-47) (Zimmerman). One part of the legacy of Da Vinci is his paintings of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. These two paintings make him so famous because these paintings have a secret. The Mona Lisa contains numbers hidden in the painting. The Last Supper is if you turn the painting around the people change their actions. If you ask someone “Who drew the Mona Lisa and Last Supper?” they will tell you Da Vinci did it (not everybody but most of the people). (World Encyclopedia

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    conveyed the Mona Lisa with him until he kicked the bucket and was unmistakably mindful of its criticalness. After the artistic creation was delivered there were questions raised about the character of the sitter. While a great many people concurred that it was Mona Lisa Gherardini, the spouse of Francesco del Giocondo, a Florentine silk vendor, many individuals proposed it was, indeed, a self-representation, and the facial highlights take after a later self-picture by Leonardo. Mona Lisa is wearing

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    approaches to do as such. There is the system of doing oil works of art. There are numerous well known compositions still today that are produced using oil paint. For instance, the Mona Lisa is an extremely surely understood painting. Another sketch is called Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was made one-hundred years after the Mona Lisa. [These two-acclaimed works of art are very similar, while as yet having

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    paintings, but at second glance they are not that simple. For example, Mona Lisa has captivated humanity for centuries because of her smile and her mysterious identity and the small details in The Last Supper have posed questions about what they mean. Leonardo da Vinci attracts me because through his art he may reveal to us some hidden truths about the past and also because he knows the identity of the women in The Mona Lisa. A crowd of people is lined up at the Paris Louvre museum, patiently

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    [Your Name] [Instructor Name] [Course Number] [Date] Analysis: Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vs. Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Creator: Leonardo da Vinci Creator: Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987 Title: Mona Lisa Title: Gold Marilyn Monroe Date: 1503-1506 Date: 1962 Material: oil on wood Material: Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe are arguably some of the most iconic and famous art pieces in history. However, what sets

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    Luebbehusen 5 December, 2016 Leonardo Da Vinci Da Vinci created many inventions, paintings, and even study many subjects. But he was mainly an artist. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But those weren’t his only paintings he had many more. These were just the painting that most inspired people to paint like him. (Mona Lisa). He was also an engineer and sketch many machines. His most famous ones were his flying machine, submarine, and clock. (Ornithopter). He also learned more about the

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    1452 near Vinci, Italy and was a painter, sculptor, architect and engineer whose genius is reported to "epitomize the Renaissance humanist ideal." (Bio True Story, 2012) His most popular and influential paintings are those of the Last Supper and Mona Lisa. It is reported that Da Vinci's notebooks "reveal a scientific inquiry and a mechanical prowess that were centuries ahead of their time." (Bio True Story, 2012) It is reported of Da Vinci that he believed that sight ""¦was man's highest sense because

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