"It's hard to understand what her countenance shows.
That's why we are attracted by the Mona Lisa."
My friend said that, but I didn't think that it was the only reason that explains why she is so famous.
I had never understood its attraction.
Listening to the explanation from an interpreter at the Louvre,
I finally understood why. The following is what I learned.
When Leonardo da Vinci was 65 years old, he moved from Italy to Paris,
and only brought with him three important paintings.
One of them was the Mona Lisa, shrouded in mystery even to this day.
In fact, most artworks works that we call masterpieces are still veiled in mystery.
That's why they became famous. (ah, I got it!)
There are so many hypotheses about the model used for the Mona Lisa.
1:This is the most famous hypothesis.
The rich Italian merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, ordered Leonerdo da Vinch
to make a portrait of his wife. His wife was Elizabetta, commonly called Lisa.
Mona is madam in Italian. That means madam Lisa.
The Mona Lisa is still called "La Joconde" in European countries.
Portrait subjects should have been painted beautifully at that time because painters received
a lot of money from their clients, but the Mona Lisa has a lump of fat next to her nose.
This lacks credibility not because of this reason, but also for the following one.
2 This is the highly credible hypothesis that the interpreter believes.
The model is Leonardo da Vinci himself. He finally found the theory of perfect beauty and
painted himself androgynously to immortalize it.
He has a lump of fat next to his nose and had an inferiority complex about it. Mona Lisa faces the right. Da Vinci turned his face to the left in most of his self portraits to hide his facial lump of fat.
I guess you have seen one of them. An Italian researcher came up with the idea that
the model was a man several years ago. The Louvre has yet to admit this hypothesis.
It's well known that he was gay, and he was very handsome when he was young.
That's why he might have had conflict of Christian thoughts.
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