"is based on Leonardo’s portrait of ""Mona Lisa"". Other later copies of the ""Mona Lisa"", such as those in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, also display large flanking columns. As a result, it was originally thought that the ""Mona Lisa"" in the Louvre had side columns and had been cut. However, as early as 1993, Zöllner observed that the painting surface had never been trimmed. This was confirmed through a series of tests conducted in 2004. In view of this, Vincent Delieuvin, curator of 16th-century Italian painting at"
"is a lack of outside corroboration for his claims. A documentary aired by PBS gives the names of the persons doing the scientific studies. The painting disappeared from public gaze around 1970, locked in a Swiss bank vault. Pulitzer died in 1979, leaving the painting to his Swiss partner. On 27 September 2012, The Mona Lisa Foundation of Zurich unveiled the painting once more to the world's press. A book published at the same time presented the Foundation's research and arguments for the painting's authenticity. Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University, though having not seen the painting, immediately raised doubts"
"Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa (; or La Gioconda , ) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as ""the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"". The ""Mona Lisa"" is also one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation in history at $100 million in 1962, which is worth nearly $800 million in 2017. The painting is thought to be a"
"Joconde Joconde is the central database created in 1975 and now available online, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, for objects in the collections of the main French public and private museums listed as ""Musées de France"", according to article L. 441-1 of the ""Code du patrimoine"" amouting to more than 1,200 institutions. ""La Joconde"" is the French name of the Mona Lisa, which like about half of the collections of the Louvre, is included in the database, as one of 295 items by (42 including 6 paintings), after, or connected with Leonardo da Vinci. By November 2012, Joconde"
"The replica has been part of the Prado's collection since the museum's founding in 1819. After restoration, the Prado's ""Mona Lisa"" revealed details covered by previous restorations and layers of varnish. Furnishings and fabrics were enhanced, as well as landscape and facial features. It is anticipated that such revelations may offer further insight into Leonardo's original. Experts at the Louvre reportedly supported the Prado museum's findings. The Prado replica was subsequently transported to the Louvre in 2012 to be displayed next to ""Mona Lisa"" as part of a temporary exhibition. Two nude paintings bearing similarities to Leonardo da Vinci's original"
"called to tell Max that a thief had stolen four of the worlds' greatest treasures—the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre museum in Paris; the Hope Diamond at New York's museum of Natural History, on loan from the Smithsonian; the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London; and a billion dollars in gold bullion at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Max went to his house to see how his family was. They weren't frozen anymore. Max returned to his school, and his teacher told him that he missed out on the excitement—the whole world had been frozen."
"Vincenzo Peruggia Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8, 1881 – October 8, 1925) was an Italian thief, most famous for stealing the ""Mona Lisa"" on 21 August 1911. Born in Dumenza, Varese, Italy, he died in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France. In 1911, Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century. It was a police theory that the former Louvre worker hid inside the museum on Sunday, August 20, knowing the museum would be closed the following day. But, according to Peruggia's interrogation in Florence after his arrest, he entered the museum on Monday, August 21 around 7"
"that ""The Funeral of Mona Lisa"" will go on display at The Louvre on February 12, 2009 until May 18, 2009 in the room next to the original Mona Lisa. His first solo exhibition in the United States was displayed at David Zwirner in New York City, May 2007. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2003; the Sevilla Biennale in 2006; the Istanbul Biennial in 2007, among others. Public collections holding works by Yan Pei-Ming include the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon; the Honolulu Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Australia; the"
"weeks and months of the war harassing local German forces. When the Americans arrived, his information helped them capture several eminent Nazis. He and his colleagues had captured the salt mine, prevented the destruction of the artworks held there and were able to hand over """"a number of Nazi treasure hoards, including the Mona Lisa and the Austrian Imperial Crown Jewels"""". Other artworks rescued included the Ghent Altarpiece. The administrators of the Louvre have stated that the Mona Lisa was kept in France during the Second World War, but that it is possible that a 15th- or 16th-century copy of"
"Day They Stole the Mona Lisa"", written in 1981, is about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. In the book, Reit asserted that there were ""two"" genuine ""Mona Lisas"" in the world: the one in the Louvre, and an earlier version of the work painted by Leonardo da Vinci which was being held in a bank vault in New Jersey (the so-called ""Vernon Mona Lisa""). A long-planned movie adaptation of the book has never materialized, although the Internet Movie Database lists a movie by the same title tentatively planned for 2009. In addition to those"
"confirmed its attribution to Leonardo da Vinci. In 2011, the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain, announced discovery of what may be the earliest known replica. Miguel Falomir, heading the Department of Italian Renaissance Painting at the time of the discovery, stated the Prado ""had no idea of (the painting's) significance"" until a recent restoration. Recovered from the Prado's vaults, the replica – which El Mundo newspaper dubbed """"Mona Lisa""'s twin"" (""above, far right"") – was reportedly painted simultaneously alongside Leonardo as he painted his own ""Mona Lisa""; in the same studio, by a ""key"" student. It was painted on walnut."
"Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Gavarni, and Alphonse Mucha. The Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2017, with 8.1 million visitors. Its treasures include the ""Mona Lisa"" (""La Joconde""), the Venus de Milo statue, ""Liberty Leading the People"", and many other notable works. The second-most visited museum in the city, with 3.3 million visitors, was the Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, which houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne. The third most visited Paris museum, in a building constructed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 as the Orsay railway station, was the Musée d'Orsay, which had 3.2"
"museum, housing many works of art, including the ""Mona Lisa"" (""La Joconde"") and the ""Venus de Milo"" statue. Known as the Great Louvre, it is the national museum and art gallery of France. Francis I ( a connoisseur of Art), initially started building the Louvre as part of the royal palace erected at a location where a 12th-century fortress of Philip Augustus existed. The palace underwent several additions over the centuries. Finally, after the court moved to Versailles in 1682, a proposal to convert the Louvre into a public museum was mooted in the 18th century, and in 1793 Musée"
"new ones. The city's most prized museum, the Louvre, welcomes over 8 million visitors a year, being by far the world's most-visited art museum. It houses many works of art, including the ""Mona Lisa"" (""La Joconde"") and the ""Venus de Milo"" statue. Works by Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin are found in the Musée Picasso and the Musée Rodin, respectively, while the artistic community of Montparnasse, part of the School of Paris, is chronicled at the Musée Mendjisky. Starkly apparent with its service-pipe exterior, the Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as the ""Beaubourg"", houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne, and"
"spotlight on it over several years."" From December 1962 to March 1963, the French government lent it to the United States to be displayed in New York City and Washington, D.C. It was shipped on the new liner SS ""France"". In New York an estimated 1.7 million people queued ""in order to cast a glance at the Mona Lisa for 20 seconds or so."" While exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the painting was almost drenched in water because of a faulty sprinkler, but the bullet-proof glass case which encased the painting protected it. In 1974, the painting was"
"museum is located in a building that once served as the residence of the bishops of Montauban. The structure belongs chiefly to the 17th century, but some portions are much older, notably an underground chamber known as the Hall of the Black Prince (Salle du Prince Noir). During World War II, the Musée Ingres served as one of the temporary places of storage for the Mona Lisa, evacuated from the Louvre at the beginning of the war. A renovation carried out between 1951–1958 made Musée Ingres a modern institution according to the designs of the time, equipped with additional inventories."
"the possession of the people. Today about six million people visit the painting each year at the Louvre in Paris, where it is part of a French national collection. Lisa del Giocondo Lisa del Giocondo (; née Gherardini ; June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman, member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the ""Mona Lisa"", her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth"
"nobleman in whose family it had been for nearly 100 years. This discovery led to the conjecture that Leonardo painted two portraits of Lisa del Giocondo: the famous one in The Louvre, and the one discovered by Blaker, who bought the painting and took it to his studio in Isleworth, London, from which it takes its name. According to ""Encyclopedia Americana"" and ""The New York Times"", The Isleworth Mona Lisa has been attributed to Leonardo, and is thought to be the unfinished portrait from which Raphael made his famous sketch (which is in the Louvre museum), and is in no"
"Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion, founded in 1952, is a manufacturer of display systems for museums. It is a centre for research into both the technical questions related to the museum world (engineering and techniques for the protection and the preservation of works of art and the most suitable method by which they may be displayed) as well as the subjects of museography and museology. The Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion has made the cases for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, the Crown Jewels in London, and the Multiversity Galleries of Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver. Indeed, the"
"in the town of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France. His death was not widely reported by the media; obituaries appeared mistakenly only when another Vincenzo Peruggia died in Haute-Savoie in 1947. There are currently two predominant theories regarding the theft of the ""Mona Lisa"". Peruggia said he did it for a patriotic reason: he wanted to bring the painting back for display in Italy ""after it was stolen by Napoleon"". Although perhaps sincere in his motive, Vincenzo may not have known that Leonardo da Vinci took this painting as a gift for Francis I when he moved to France to become a painter"
"used in more than 300 other paintings and in 2,000 advertisements, appearing at an average of one new advertisement each week. In 2005, an expert at the University Library of Heidelberg discovered a margin note in the library's collection that established with certainty the traditional view that the sitter was Lisa. The note, written by Agostino Vespucci in 1503, states that Leonardo was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. The ""Mona Lisa"" has been in custody of France since the 16th century, when it was acquired by King Francis I; after the French Revolution, however, it came into"
"the Mona Lisa was held in Austria. After the war, Gaiswinkler was a SPÖ member of the Austrian Parliament from 1945 to 1949. He died in Bad Aussee in 1979. Albrecht Gaiswinkler Albrecht Gaiswinkler (29 October 1905 – 11 May 1979) was an Austrian civil servant, social democrat (SPÖ) politician and resistance fighter, who, some believe, saved the Mona Lisa from destruction in an Austrian salt mine towards the end of World War II. Gaiswinkler was born in Bad Aussee, Austria. In 1934, he was a political prisoner for some months. In 1944, while serving with the German Wehrmacht in"
"by Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, living in Paris. Other foreign artists also settled and worked in or near Paris, such as Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Wassily Kandinsky. Many museums in France are entirely or partly devoted to sculptures and painting works. A huge collection of old masterpieces created before or during the 18th century are displayed in the state-owned Musée du Louvre, such as Mona Lisa, also known as La Joconde. While the Louvre Palace has been for a long time a museum, the Musée d'Orsay was inaugurated in 1986 in the"
"were part of a 2009 exhibition of artwork inspired by ""Mona Lisa"". Displayed at the Museo Ideale in Leonardo's hometown of Vinci, near Florence, some believe one of the paintings – dating from Leonardo's time – to be the work of Leonardo himself, and it has at times been credited to him. Other experts theorize the painting, one of at least six known to exist, may be just another copy painted by ""followers"" of Leonardo. Scholarly dispute persists as to artist, subject and origin. The nude in question, discovered behind a wall in a private library, reportedly belonged to an"
"two years, Peruggia grew impatient and was caught when he attempted to sell it to directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It was exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery for over two weeks and returned to the Louvre on 4 January 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison for the crime and was hailed for his patriotism in Italy. Before its theft, the ""Mona Lisa"" was not widely known outside the art world. It was not until the 1860s that some critics, a thin slice of the French intelligentsia, began to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting. In"
"the painting in the Louvre, located in Paris. At the Louvre, they discover that the card contains a viewing window, and looking through it, the window reveals that the Mona Lisa has a map of Africa hidden beneath. Elmer Fudd appears, and, revealing himself as an Acme operative, chases Bugs and Daffy through the gallery for the card whilst Kate is kidnapped by Mr. Chairman's bodyguard, Mr. Smith, to obtain a photo of the African map. DJ rescues Kate. Elmer is disintegrated by Bugs after jumping out of a pointillism artwork. Bugs and Daffy reunite with DJ and Kate, and"
"clones of Leonardo's great portrait"" while Valfierno made arrangements to steal the real painting. In the early hours of 21 August 1911, Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia and two accomplices carried the ""Mona Lisa"" out of the museum covered in a painter's smock. Decker asserts that six Chaudron copies had already been sent to the United States ahead of the theft and while the stolen original remained in France, Valfierno followed his fakes and sold each for up to 300,000. The original remained hidden for two years until Peruggia, presenting himself as Leonardo Vincenzo, tried to sell it in Florence, Italy."
"A museum administrator there was suspicious, reported the attempted sale and Peruggia was arrested. The original ""Mona Lisa"" was returned to the Louvre in 1913. More than 100 years later, none of these six paintings has ever surfaced, bringing into question if they ever in fact existed. Further, the only evidence that the ""famed forger"" Yves Chaudron even existed is Karl Decker's 1932 ""Saturday Evening Post"" article. There are no known photos of the man or relatives or any biographical details outside of this incident. None of his other forged works has ever come to light, and it is quite"
"Chaumière. Coincidentally, Lovisa was among the visitors at The Louvre on the day Leonardo da Vinci’s ""Mona Lisa"" was stolen. Upon her return to Erie, Lovisa was awarded honorary membership to the Woman’s Club of Erie. She was also posthumously named one of the twelve greatest women in Erie history by the Business and Professional Women’s Club in 1931. Well into her seventies, Lovisa continued to build exhibitions with the Art Club. In 1923, she helped institute the Art Club’s first regular exhibition of local artists This exhibition continues today as the Annual Spring Show at the Erie Art Museum."
"of London. On 15 April 1983, some 200 items, including paintings and dozens of rare clocks and watches, were stolen when the museum was burgled. Among the stolen timepieces was the watch known as the ""Marie Antoinette"", the so-called ""Mona Lisa"" of watches, and the crown jewel of the watch collection, made by the famed French-Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet reputedly for Queen Marie Antoinette, and estimated to be worth US$30 million. It was part of a unique collection of 57 Breguet timepieces donated to the museum by the daughter of Sir David Lionel Salomons, one of the leading experts on"
"am, through the door where the other Louvre workers were entering. He said he wore one of the white smocks that museum employees customarily wore and was indistinguishable from the other workers. When the Salon Carré, where the ""Mona Lisa"" hung, was empty, he lifted the painting off the four iron pegs that secured it to the wall and took it to a nearby service staircase. There, he removed the protective case and frame. Some people report that he concealed the painting (which Leonardo painted on wood) under his smock. But Peruggia was only , and the ""Mona Lisa"" measures"
"be inventions of those artists, or copies of another (unknown) studio version of ""Mona Lisa"". People of Arezzo in the Val di Chiana, a valley in Tuscany, have traditionally claimed the ""Mona Lisa"" landscape as theirs. An article published in the journal ""Cartographica"" suggests that the landscape comprises two parts which when placed together correspond to Leonardo's topographic map, the ""Val di Chiana"". It has been suggested that Leonardo created more than one version of the painting. Another contender is the ""Isleworth Mona Lisa"", which had been hidden in a Swiss bank vault for 40 years before being unveiled to"
"since 2004. For example, Ileana Sonnabend's name was added in 2012, even though she was only 15 when the museum was established in 1929. In Memoriam – David Rockefeller (1915–2017) Vice chairmen: Board of trustees: Life trustees: Honorary trustees: Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA plays a major role in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA's collection"