"film to shoot on campus. Mona Lisa Smile Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the ""Mona Lisa"", the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance,"
"Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter and polymath who achieved legendary fame and iconic status within his own lifetime. His renown primarily rests upon his brilliant achievements as a painter, the ""Mona Lisa"" and the ""Last Supper"", being two of the most famous artworks ever created, but also upon his diverse skills as a scientist and inventor. He became so highly valued during his lifetime that the King of France bore him home like a trophy of war, supported him in his old age and,"
"on Duchamp's own face. Salvador Dalí, famous for his surrealist work, painted ""Self portrait as Mona Lisa"" in 1954. In 1963 following the painting's visit to the United States, Andy Warhol created serigraph prints of multiple ""Mona Lisa""s called ""Thirty are Better than One"", like his works of Marilyn Monroe (""Twenty-five Coloured Marilyns"", 1962), Elvis Presley (1964) and Campbell's soup (1961–62). The ""Mona Lisa"" continues to inspire artists. A French urban artist known pseudonymously as Invader has created versions on city walls in Paris and Tokyo using a mosaic style. A collection of ""Mona Lisa"" parodies may be found on"
"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"
"Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath, regarded as the epitome of the ""Renaissance Man"", displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of study. Whilst most famous for his paintings such as the ""Mona Lisa"" and the ""Last Supper"", Leonardo is also renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics, and zoology. While the full extent of his scientific studies has only become recognized in the last 150 years, he was, during his lifetime, employed for his engineering and skill of invention. Many of"
"1650; and its manifest superiority to the more than 20 known painted versions of the composition.<br><br> Furthermore, the extraordinary quality of the picture, especially evident in its best-preserved areas, and its close adherence in style to Leonardo’s known paintings from circa 1500, solidifies this consensus. Yet, there are some respected experts on Renaissance art who question the attribution of the painting to Leonardo. Jacques Franck, a Paris-based art historian and Leonardo specialist, who has studied the ""Mona Lisa"" out of the frame multiple times, stated: ""The composition doesn't come from Leonardo, he preferred twisted movement. It's a good studio work"
"American icon and a Victorian ""Mona Lisa"". Anna McNeill Whistler posed for the painting while living in London with her son at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Several unverifiable stories relate to the painting of the work; one is that Anna Whistler acted as a replacement for another model who couldn't make the appointment. It is also said that Whistler originally envisioned painting the model standing up, but that his mother was too uncomfortable to pose standing for an extended period. Another story associated with the painting is that Whistler called upon his beautiful young neighbour, Helena Amelia Lindgren (1855-1931), of number"
"example of ""second-generation"" interpretations of ""Mona Lisa"". Salvador Dalí created his ""Self Portrait as Mona Lisa"" in 1954, referencing ""L.H.O.O.Q."" in collaboration with Philippe Halsman, incorporating his photographs of a wild-eyed Dalí showing his handlebar moustache and a handful of coins. In 1958, Icelandic painter Erró then incorporated Dalí's version into a composition which also included a film-still from Dalí's ""Un Chien Andalou"". Fernand Léger and René Magritte are among the numbers of Modern art masters who've adapted ""Mona Lisa"" using their own iconography. None of the parodies have tarnished ""Mona Lisa""'s image; rather, they reinforce her fame. Duchamp's ""mustached"""
"""Mona Lisa"" embellishment continues to inspire imitation. Contemporary conceptual artist Subodh Gupta gave ""L.H.O.O.Q."" three-dimensional form in his 2009 bronze sculpture ""Et tu, Duchamp?"" Gupta, from India, considers himself an ""idol thief"" and has reinterpreted a number of iconic works from European art history. Radio personality Bruce Morrow presided over a promotional event during ""Mona Lisa""'s exhibition in New York City. 70,000 entries of a ""Best Mona"" painting contest were exhibited at the Polo Grounds, with Salvador Dalí helping to pick the winner. Following the painting's first American presentation, Andy Warhol in 1963 created multiple renditions in his screen-print Pop"
"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 and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class"
"restoration, that the painting is probably by Salaì (1480–1524) or by Melzi (1493–1572). This has been called into question by others. The restored painting is from a slightly different perspective than the original ""Mona Lisa"", leading to the speculation that it is part of the world's first stereoscopic pair. However, a more recent report has demonstrated that this stereoscopic pair in fact gives no reliable stereoscopic depth. A version of the ""Mona Lisa"" known as the ""Isleworth Mona Lisa"" and also known as the ""Earlier Mona Lisa"" was first bought by an English nobleman in 1778 and was rediscovered in"
"than the ""Mona Lisa"". Beginning possibly with a naked portrait of Diane de Poitiers by Clouet, the pose and expression have been freely adapted to many female portraits. The avant-garde art world has made note of the undeniable fact of the ""Mona Lisa's"" popularity. Because of the painting's overwhelming stature, Dadaists and Surrealists often produce modifications and caricatures. Already in 1883, ""Le rire,"" an image of a Mona Lisa smoking a pipe, by Sapeck (Eugène Bataille), was shown at the ""Incoherents"" show in Paris. In 1919, Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential modern artists, created ""L.H.O.O.Q."", a ""Mona Lisa"""
"Mona Lisa (opera) Mona Lisa, Op. 31 is a 1915 opera by the German composer Max von Schillings on a libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky. It was dedicated to the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, where the composer was awarded the title of professor. In the spring of 1913, Beatrice von Dovsky presented the libretto to the composer, who prepared a piano sketch during the following summer. He completed the opera during his eight-month military duty as a medical soldier in France and Belgium. The subject was very topical at the time, because the painting by Leonardo da"
"after the location of Blaker's studio in Isleworth, west London) being the first. The painting was subsequently bought by Henry F. Pulitzer, who argued that it was Leonardo's only real portrait of Lisa Gherardini. It belongs to a private collection and is not on display to the public, but has been examined by many experts in recent years, and been filmed for a TV documentary. According to Leonardo's early biographer Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo had started to paint ""Mona Lisa"" in 1503, but ""left it unfinished"". However, a fully finished painting of a ""certain Florentine lady"" surfaced again in 1517, shortly"
"numbers version of ""Mona Lisa"" accompanied artist Suzanne Lacy during her 1977 travelogue ""Travels with Mona"", documenting the painting process at landmark locations throughout Europe and Central America. From the 1980s through the end of the 20th Century, ""Mona Lisa"" continued to be the subject of re-interpretation among a new generation of emerging artists. Street artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, who came into prominence in the 1980s, created ""Federal Reserve Note"" and ""Apocalipse 7"", respectively, juxtaposing ""Mona Lisa"" within compositions suiting their styles. Ballpoint art pioneer Lennie Mace created his ""Mona a'la Mace"" replica in 1993, a"
"embellishment. ""Sapeck"" (Eugène Bataille), in 1883, depicted ""Mona Lisa"" smoking a pipe (""shown above""). Titled ""Le Rire"" (The Laugh), the artwork was displayed at the ""Incoherents"" exhibition in Paris at the time of its creation, making it among the earliest known instances of ""Mona Lisa""'s image being re-interpreted using contemporary irony. Further interpretations by avante garde artists beginning in the early 20th century, coinciding with the artwork's theft, attest to ""Mona Lisa""'s popularity as an irresistible target. Dadaists and Surrealists were quick to modify, embellish and caricature ""Mona Lisa""'s visage. Marcel Duchamp, among the most influential artists of his generation,"
"crochet and table-carpets. More than any other artist, he advanced the study and painting of ""atmosphere"". In his paintings such as the ""Mona Lisa"" (c.1503-1517) and ""Virgin of the Rocks"" (1483-1486) (the earliest complete work fully of his hand), he used light and shade with such subtlety that, for want of a better word, it became known as Leonardo's ""sfumato"" or ""smoke"". He exhibited a revolutionary use of colour by defining the transition between figures by colour modulation instead of by actual lines. His work invited the viewer into a mysterious world of shifting shadows, chaotic mountains and whirling torrents."
"da Vincis masterpiece Mona Lisa has become part of our cultural memory and has inspired many artists of the 20th century to create their own works with the painting. George Pusenkoff also dealt with the Mona Lisa. In 1993 he painted his first work with an image of the Mona Lisa. It's title is ""said Duchamp"". Since then, he has repeatedly worked with the image of Mona Lisa, to an extent as no other artist before him:"" For Pusenkoff, the Mona Lisa has become his female alter ego, an iconic representation of his own artistic identity."" In 1995 George Pusenkoff"
"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"
"portrait as Mona Lisa"" in 1954. In 1963 following the painting's visit to the United States, Andy Warhol created serigraph prints of multiple ""Mona Lisa""s called ""Thirty are Better than One"", like his works of Marilyn Monroe (""Twenty-five Coloured Marilyns"", 1962), Elvis Presley (1964) and Campbell's soup (1961–1962). ""Il Gran Cavallo"". This monumental bronze horse, 7 metres (24 feet) high, is a conjectural re-creation of a clay horse that was created in Milan by Leonardo da Vinci for the Ludovico Sforza and was intended to be cast in bronze. Leonardo never finished the project because of war with France, and"
"been painted (and required for viewing) under ultraviolet light. Six years later, he exhibited another comparable painting that, viewed with the unaided eye, depicted the famous transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh, but when viewed through an optical instrument that Bittinger had invented, appeared instead to be the Mona Lisa. In 1937, the U.S. Navy and the National Geographic Society invited Bittinger to paint on-site a total solar eclipse on Canton Island in the Pacific Ocean. In 1946, he was one of the artists invited by the U.S. Navy to witness and making paintings of the first atomic explosions at the"
"by Leonardo da Vinci has long been attracting vandals and is currently one of the best-protected artworks. In 1956, the lower part of the painting was severely damaged when a vandal doused the painting with acid while it was on display at a museum in Montauban, France. On 30 December of the same year, a young Bolivian named Ugo Ungaza Villegas threw a rock at the painting; this resulted in the loss of a speck of pigment near the left elbow, which was later painted over. The use of bulletproof glass has shielded the Mona Lisa from more recent attacks."
"found that can be attributed to anyone named Chaudron. Yves Chaudron Yves Chaudron was a supposed French master art forger who is alleged to have copied images of Leonardo da Vinci's ""Mona Lisa"" as part of Eduardo de Valfierno's famous 1911 ""Mona Lisa"" painting theft. In reality he may be a fictional character created by Karl Decker for an article that ran in a 1932 issue of the ""Saturday Evening Post"", and passed off as a real person. There is also very little evidence that Valfierno actually existed, or if he did, that he was involved in the theft of"
"art style. """"Mona Lisa"" (Two Times),"" ""Four ""Mona Lisa""s,"" and ""Thirty Are Better Than One"" illustrate Warhol's method of silkscreening an image repetitively within the same work of art. Also in 1963, Fernando Botero – who had already painted """"Mona Lisa"", Age Twelve"" in 1959 – painted another, this time in what would become his trademark ""Boterismo"" style of rendering figures disproportionately ""plump"". ""Mona Lisa"" is also referenced in artwork by Contemporary art luminaries such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, adding to the veritable ""who's who"" list of artists putting their own spin on the portrait. A paint by"
"the Louvre museum states that the sketch and these other copies must have been inspired by another version, while Frank Zöllner states that the sketch brings up the possibility that Leonardo executed another work on the subject of Mona Lisa. It is unclear as to who commissioned the painting. Vasari states that the work was painted for Francesco del Giocondo, the husband of Lisa del Giocondo. However, Antonio de Beatis, following a visit with Leonardo in 1517, records that the painting was executed at the instance of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici. In 1516, Leonardo was invited by King François"
"portraiture to traditional religious and classical subjects. Leonardo and Pisanello were among the first Italian artists to add allegorical symbols to their secular portraits. One of best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled ""Mona Lisa"", named for Lisa del Giocondo, a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The famous ""Mona Lisa smile"" is an excellent example of applying subtle asymmetry to a face. In his notebooks, Leonardo advises on the qualities of light in portrait painting: A very high degree of"
"Beatrice von Dovsky Beatrice von Dovsky (14 November 1866, Vienna – 18 July 1923, Vienna) was an Austrian poet, writer, and actress. She is best known for writing the libretto for Max von Schillings's opera ""Mona Lisa"" which she presented to the composer in the spring of 1913. The subject was very topical at the time, because the painting by Leonardo da Vinci had been stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and rediscovered in Florence in 1913. The opera premiered successfully at the Staatsoper Stuttgart in September 1915, and, while not part of the standard opera repertory, has been commercially"
"length format-- was apparently inspired by the ""Mona Lisa"", painted by Leonardo between 1503 and 1506. Christof Thoenes observes: ""However unabashedly Raphael adopts the pose, compositional framework and spatial organization of the Leonardo portrait...the cool watchfulness in the young woman's gaze is very different"" from the ""enigmatic ambiguity"" of Mona Lisa. The work was of uncertain attribution until recent times. In the 1760 inventory of the Gallery, the subject of the painting was identified as Saint Catherine of Alexandria and attributed to Perugino. A restoration of the painting in 1934–36 confirmed art historian Roberto Longhi's attribution of the work to"
"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"
"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"
"the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. The title of the painting, which is known in English as ""Mona Lisa"", comes from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote ""Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."" ""Mona"" in Italian is a polite form of address originating as ""ma donna"" – similar to ""Ma’am"", ""Madam"", or ""my lady"" in English. This became ""madonna"", and its contraction ""mona"". The title of the painting, though"
"the world, but until the 20th century it was simply one among many highly regarded artworks. Once part of King Francis I of France's collection, the ""Mona Lisa"" was among the first artworks to be exhibited in Louvre, which became a national museum after the French Revolution. From the 19th century Leonardo began to be revered as a genius and the painting's popularity grew from the mid-19th century when French intelligentsia developed a theme that it was mysterious and a representation of the femme fatale. The Baedeker guide in 1878 called it ""the most celebrated work of Leonardo in the"
"It is unclear if Correggio painted the work after the first will of 1517 or, as is more probable, before it. The artist carefully studied how to vary poses, gestures and looks, with two of the figures looking downwards (Peter and Martha), one looking up (Leonard) and one towards the viewer (Mary Magdalene). The slight smile of Mary also draws on the style of Leonardo da Vinci, most notably in the ""Mona Lisa"". Stylistically it can be placed in the years before 1517, preceding the maturer ""Madonna and Child with St Francis"". Parallels with Raphael's ""The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia"","