transform Lisa

As we all know this is the famous Mona Lisa painting, painted by Leonardo de Vinci. This portrait is one of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo which had been painted between 1503 and 1506. Presently this oil painting is being held at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and it has been said that it is "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."( Taken from wikipedia, article 'Mona Lisa')

I have recently learnt that this painting is called the Mona Lisa because in Italian my lady is donna so it had become madonna which was abreviated into Mona.

The paintings fame rocketed to the roof when it was Stolen in 1911. At first a musuem authority thought it had been taken to be photographed when he found out that it wasn't the Louvre was shut down for a week for investigative purposes. After two years ''Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen it by entering the building during regular hours, hiding in a broom closet and walking out with it hidden under his coat after the museum had closed.^[8] Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo's painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum. Peruggia may have also been motivated by a friend whose copies of the original would significantly rise in value after the painting's theft. '' ( Taken from wikipedia, article 'Mona Lisa')

Wikipedia, 2001.  [online] Available at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa> [Accessed 17 November 2012 ].

I decided to write about this painting because a lot of people try to imitate such famous painting, may it be in sculpture, drawing or computer generating everyone tries to out a little twist upon this painting.


 

But my favourite so far would be this .
This is not a painting made by a famous artist this has been painted by a talented amateure that I had ran into on a blog . Stars Portraits, 2005. [online] Available at: <http://www.stars-portraits.com/en/portrait-199162.html> [Accessed 17 December 2012 ].

I like it so much because it adds up the painting of Mona Lisa , the influences of Picasso and Van Gogh's 'Stary Night' . The Mona Lisa is radidly transformed in many different ways, some people choose to change the idea completely and some others choose to keep the same idea but change a few points to replicate this famous painting.