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EVENT: The Insider's Guide to: Leonardo's Mona Lisa

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
The Insider's Guide to: Leonardo's Mona Lisa : What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture in the world? Other events...
Why is it that, of all the 6,000 paintings in the Louvre, it is the only one to be exhibited in a special box, set in concrete and protected by two sheets of bulletproof glass? Why do thousands of visitors throng to see it every day, ignoring the masterpieces which surround it? For nearly 500 years the painting – and the mysterious smile on the face of the sitter has been a source of mystery, speculation and reverence. In this lecture we will discuss not only the Mona Lisa and its history, but its mythology and the processes which combined to raise it to its current unrivalled level of fame. We will examine Leonardo’s innovative techniques; the problems concerning the identity of the sitter; what happened to the painting after it left Italy when Leonardo joined King Francois I’s court in France; the copies made after the painting; its celebration by 19th-century intellectuals; its theft and disappearance early in the 20th century; the surrealist’s response to the artwork; other avant-garde artists' and cartoonists' uses of it; its appropriation by the advertising industry and the never-ending flood of new and ‘conclusive’ theories about Mona Lisa’s smile.
Speaker(s) Arvi Wattel
Location The University Club
Contact Sue Enright <[email protected]> : 6488 3473
URL https://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/course/CCDR
Start Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:30
End Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:30
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Submitted by Sarah Cocks <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:21
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