MONA LISA

MONA LISA

The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a half-length picture of a lady by the Italian specialist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most went to, the most expounded on, the most sung about, the most caricature showstopper in the world."

The painting, thought to be a picture of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a poplar board, and is accepted to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. It was obtained by King Francis I of France and is presently the property of the French Republic, on perpetual presentation at the Musée du Louvre in Paris since 1797.[2] The equivocalness of the subject's declaration, which is regularly portrayed as enigmatic,the monumentality of the creation, the unobtrusive displaying of structures and the air illusionism were novel qualities that have committed to the proceeding interest and investigation of the function.