Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mona Lisa

Ok, before I start to write about my Paris-London trip, I want to share something about the painting of da Vinci, the Mona Lisa.

When I visit to Louvre museum and I saw hundred of peoples standing in front of the Mona Lisa and taking picture of it, and I change my zoom lens and standing behind these peoples and take this famous painting. Because the painting is so expensive, it is covered with a piece of glass, and you can see the reflection of the peoples at the bottom part of the photo. According to the wiki, about 6 million of peoples went to Louvre to see this painting every year O.O

At that time I wonder, what make this painting so famous. If you had visited to Louvre museum before, you will saw lot of very great, huge and colorful paintings hanging on the wall, and Mona Lisa is actually only 30" x 21" in size, and the color is actually quite dull. But I have to agree that da Vinci is definitely a better painter than me :p

So, I search the internet about the Mona Lisa painting and one of the answer is that, this is a revolution painting and lot of new styles and techniques of painting are used or created by the master Leonardo da Vinci.



The second question is that who is the lady in the picture? According to the wiki again, she is Lisa del Giocondo. So, who is she? Well, according to wiki again, she is a mother of six children and just an ordinary person.

Leonardo spent almost 16 years to finish this masterpiece and luckily he finish the drawing before he died. So, I have to respect this genius for his passion in his work.

3 comments:

  1. but it is weird that mona lisa is the only exhibit at the louvre that is attracting that many people in front of it snapping pic non stop. there is a rumor saying that the mona lisa at louvre is a replica. hmm.... not sure about it. but it's worth it to see the mona lisa isn't it :)

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  2. eddy, i also heard is replica one, but if everyone say that is the real one, then that is the real one lo.

    louvre museum got some other good art piece also, will put on the blog soon. if u go paris and u didnt go louvre, u r like going back with 2 bunch of banana from the treasure island.

    bro, btw, i cant put any comment in ur blog, not sure why.

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  3. i went to paris and din 't visit louvre last time :p on a budget trip.
    yeah... something wrong... changed theme and can't comment... checking it out what's wrong...

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