Lisa del Giocondo

artist during the time of the Italian Renaissance. Born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, Da Vinci became interested with art at a young age. As a child he was sent by his father to become an apprentice to his good friend the painter and sculptor Andrea Del Verrocchio. By the time he was only 20 years old he was considered a master artist. Da Vinci’s first painting took him 3 years to complete, it is known as the Baptism of Christ. This specific work it made with oil paints on wood. Da Vinci would…

prominent notary, he was a public official that certified legal documents of Florence. His mother wasn’t really in his childhood. When he was fifteen his father a trainer for the new generation of practitioners of a skilled young lady. Her name is Andrea del Verrocchio she was leading the artist of Florence, she was a known…

There he painted his most famous painting of all time, The Mona Lisa, (1503-1506). This painting remains to be a mystery because nobody is sure whether the painting is a potrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo or not. The paint is currently at the Louvre Museum in France. It is valued at $100,000,000 and is the highest value of a painting in history. Leonardo had spent his later years…

The Theft of the Mona Lisa In 1911, while being held at a museum in Paris, one of the world’s greatest and most famous paintings, the Mona Lisa, was stolen. To this day, this particular crime is one of the most popular and famous of all, but why? What makes this crime one of the most remembered? Well, there were lots of aspects to this story that make it so interesting. Somewhere between 1504 and 1519, the masterpiece called the Mona Lisa was created.(Totally History) A world famous artist,…

Vinci was doing many things that helped change the views of man. Leonardo was born out of wedlock between a respected notary and a peasant woman in 1452. During his child and teen years, Leonardo was under the care of a sculptor by the name of Andrea Del Verrocchio, who helped him kick off his art career. Like all people, Leonard had his fair share of thoughts and opinions, he voiced and showed them through his work. Leonardo’s studied can be categorized by academics and arts, by doing so he…

This work was requested by Lisa’s husband Francesco Del Giocondo. Both Lisa was from a well-known family through Tuscany and Florence. Francesco was a very wealthy silk merchant. This work was to celebrate their home’s completion.Not only was it a celebration to their home, but the celebration of the birth of their…

Leonardo Da Vinci was conceived on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci close Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He existed amid the fifteenth century, a period when the populace of Europe were getting to be keen on workmanship. This time of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was extremely capable. He was an extraordinary craftsman, yet he got to be acclaimed on the grounds that he found himself able to do such a variety of different things.…

mysterious smile of woman in it and stayed the subject to ponder and speculate for centuries. Many studies were made on the woman and people tried to find out who wshe really was. She was guessed to be Mona Lisa Gherardini, who was a courtesan, however later she was suggested to be Lisa Del Giocondo, who was a wife of merchant. This painting is among the best paintings of world so far and is in fact on top of them (Nicholl, 2013). The contributions of Leonardo made the Renaissance an…

Visual Arts: Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci was known as a creative genius. One of his most famous paintings that is still surviving is his portrait Mona Lisa. She was known as La Gioconda, the wife of a merchant, Francesco del Giocondo; the painting is in three-quarter view and she is seated on a stone balcony (Fiero 198). Mona Lisa is not abstract but is lifelike and realistic. The viewer can see the whole upper torso of her body placed. She is in an elegant…

that did not exceed that of basic reading, writing and mathematics. While his formal education was lacking, Leonardo’s artistic abilities shown through very early in life. Around the age of 14, da Vinci began a long-lasting apprenticeship with Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned an extensive span of technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting. His earliest known dated work is a pen-and-ink drawing of a landscape in the Arno valley…