1. A Revolutionary Marvel

2.  Wife of Francesco del Giocondo
-nickname La Giocondo
 Clothing Merchant in Florence
 Protrait painted after the birth of 2nd child or after
buying a new house
 1503-1507 unfinished until around 1519
 Oil on uncut poplar wood
 21 x 30”

3. Through:
¾ Pose
Profile
Raffaelino Del Garbo

4. Through:
Pyramidal Composition
-Draws eye upwards
-hands make line straight
up to face

5. Through:
 Atmospheric Perspective
-making the landscape
hazy the further it goes
back
-Realistic focus on Mona
Lisa

6. Through:
 Use of humanized
landscape and Imaginary
Landscape
-Right side higher than
Left
- Use of Imaginary
Landscape with a
vanishing point behind
Mona Lisa
-Subdued color of
imaginary landscape

7. Through:
 Introduction of Sfumato;
blending and the use of
multiple layers of thin
color
-depth
-softness
-movement

8.  Hans Memeling
-Benedetto Portinari in
Prayer 1487
-3/4 pose, hands
 Lorenzo di Cardi

9. Through Art:
Pyramidal composition
-used to focus the eye

10.  Eyebrows accidentally
removed by over-zealous
cleaning
 Smile
 Pillars
-Rafael
 Veil
-mourning
-virture

11.  http://www.peintre-analyse.com/mona-lisaus.htm
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitbJszd1kM
 http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CO
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 http://www.paintinghere.com/painting/Mona_Lisa_S
mile_80.html
 http://derrickoniapineconeus.blogspot.com/2008/06/
other-mona-lisa-and-ponderings-of-how.html