The banker Zogondo asked Leonardo da Vinci to paint for his wife with a generous reward. When the lady appeared in front of the painter, she wore luxurious clothes and had a fashionable hairstyle. She has a plump figure, neat eyebrows, flushed cheeks, precious jewels on her neck and arms, and her whole body is full of beautiful but luxurious aristocratic atmosphere. Bright eyes sparkled under curved eyebrows. When she fixed her eyes on the famous painter, a head of Socrates with infinite wisdom came into view, with a silvery white beard on her face, which looked like a temporary god, quite different from the vulgar businessman she saw all day. A momentary heartfelt smile made her face look radiant, charming, shy and naughty, as if her lost youth had returned. The mystery of the model's soul was immediately captured by the observant painter. "I agree to start work at once." Da Vinci nodded to the Mona Lisa.
In order to maintain Lisa's smile, the painter told her wonderful and pleasant stories with his wise mind, and invited various clowns, pianists and street performers to perform for his wife, so as to wake up this depressed, indifferent and sleepy young woman. After Lisa sat down, she put one hand on the other and made a gesture of a young woman. The painter noticed that her bare neck and plump hands were unfortunately occupied by gold and silver jewelry. The painter said to Lisa, "if your wife doesn't object, I'd like to paint the neck and arms without any decoration." This is your purest beauty. Please take off all the ornaments symbolizing wealth and let me describe all the beauty that belongs to you. " So Lisa quickly faded all the ornaments. What we are seeing now is a young woman with no decoration and natural taste.
Mona Lisa reminds Da Vinci of his stepmother Agpina. Once, the painter confided his life experience to a young woman affectionately, as if he saw the image of his stepmother from Lisa's figure. When he talked about his mother's death at the age of 24, his voice was full of pity and sadness. Lisa said, "I'm 24 years old, too. I remind you of her." Lisa became the mysterious incarnation of Ageby Na. So when Leonardo painted Lisa, he painted it with sincere and pure feelings. He painted the portrait of this person with double feelings for his mother and lover. Not only that, he also described her as an ideal, a symbol of beauty, a joy and light of the human world. He wants to convey his beauty and experience to everyone with a brush. With the arrival of the Renaissance, God stepped down from the altar and became a man of flesh and blood, with feelings and desires. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa became a symbol of this new era and went down in history.
Some history about the Mona Lisa;
1.1503-1507, Leonardo da Vinci began to paint the Mona Lisa. The painting followed him until a few years after his death, and the portrait was bought by French king Francois I. Since then, it has been owned by the French royal family until Napoleon collected it in the Louvre in 1805. This painting is like a living alien, and its extraordinary charm and anecdotes are amazing and even unbelievable.
2. After King Louis XIII of France got the Mona Lisa, he hung it in the family training hall and ordered his daughter to imitate the smile in the painting all day. After years of hard work, the princesses finally imitated the mysterious smile perfectly.
When Napoleon owned the Mona Lisa, he liked to hang it in his bedroom. He watches it many times by himself every morning and evening, and sometimes he can stand in front of the screen for a day and a half, so fascinated that he forgets everything.
4. 195 1 year, Mona Lisa was exhibited in Spain. The Spanish head of state Franco personally held an exhibition of paintings at the airport, and 200,000 Madrid citizens dressed as Don Quixote sang and danced, which was welcomed by the streets.
5.65438 When I went to England in 0954, Prime Minister Churchill sent six planes and 300 stewardesses to take the Mona Lisa from Paris to London. The French side made an exception and allowed Prime Minister Churchill to touch his fingers three times, but stipulated that his fingers must be repeatedly cleaned and strictly disinfected.
June 1963 The Mona Lisa was exhibited in Washington, USA. There are more than 40,000 security guards, and every tourist has to go through six checkpoints and be checked by various instruments. The Mona Lisa was exhibited in Tokyo, Japan on May 1974, and each visitor was only allowed to stand in front of the painting for 9 seconds.
Seventh, the number of people visiting the Louvre every year is about 700 million. According to the incomplete statistics of UNESCO, by the end of 199 1, there were more than 200 monographs on Mona Lisa in the world, and there were countless other publications.
Eight, the world has found more than 200 copies of the Mona Lisa, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher collected four copies. She said: "I really like the Mona Lisa, but she is an orphan, so I can only entertain myself with fakes."