File:Copy of the Mona Lisa - Walters 371158.jpg
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[edit]anonymous: Copy of the ''Mona Lisa"
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Copy of the Mona Lisa |
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painting / artwork copy  |
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) began a portrait of Lisa Gherardini about 1503 and then took with him to France, selling it to the French king in 1516. During the centuries that it remained in the royal collection it was copied many times. Some of the early copiests wanted to "complete" Leonardo's composition by introducing columns at the sides of the composition, since in the original, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, we can see indications of the base of columns along each side. However, extensive technical examinations of the Louvre's panel and the paint along its edges have conclusively demonstrated that the painting was not cut down and therefore there were never columns along the side edges. So later copiests were trying to "improve" on what they saw!
The woman is depicted with "sfumato," a technique invented by Leonardo and based on his study of nature and in which transitions from light to shade are almost invisibly rendered. This makes contours appear soft and blurred, as if affected by atmospheric haze. The copyist has tried to imitate this effect, but without the subtlety of the original. |
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| Date | between circa 1635 and circa 1660 (Baroque) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 79.3 cm (31.2 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in); Framed height: 100.3 cm (39.5 in); width: 81.9 cm (32.2 in); depth: 10.1 cm (4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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37.1158 |
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| Place of creation | France (?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | Undercover Stories in Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980. Artful Deception: The Craft of the Forger. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport. 1987-1992. Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix. 2007-2008. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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| current | 05:32, 26 March 2012 | | 1,382 × 1,799 (2.47 MB) | File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = {{Creator:Leonardo da Vinci}} |title = ''Copy of the "Mona Lisa"'' |description = {{en|Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) began a portrait of Lisa Gherardini about 1503 ... |
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