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That Mona Lisa Smile
2008-03-31 09:01:00 Having a deep and abiding appreciation for all things big and beautiful, I was very excited to be in the city of Paris - surrounded by some of the biggest and most beautiful pieces of art in the... ...oh...excuse me...if you'd like to read the rest of this exciting globe-trotting adventure (& see the titillating pictures)...you'll need to visit my blog...so please scroll up to the TOP of this page & click on "OLGA, THE TRAVELING BRA"....see ya over there! Ta-Ta! (for now!) ~love, Olga, the Traveling Bra
German experts crack Mona Lisa smile
2008-01-15 04:59:00 German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself.Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world."All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by a discovery by Dr. Armin Schlechter," a manuscript expert, the library said in a statement on Monday.Until then, only "scant evidence" from sixteenth-century documents had been available. "This left lots of room for interpretat...
By: Goss INDIA
The Mona Lisa Smile Historical Review
2007-11-17 16:11:00 Mona Lisa smile interpretation has been a prime debate among art historians and scholars for centuries, since DaVinci first put his painting to canvas so many years ago. Theories abound and tests have been run, but still today people wonder why it was that such a simple curl of the lips could be so expressive. The ...
Mona Lisa Smile and then some
2007-09-27 04:25:00 Of course, much of the fall programming on ShindoTV is teaching stories, and this is no exception. Much of my time now is taken up with preparing for classes, reading papers (sometimes I want to... check out the frequencies on shindotv
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