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Younger, happier Mona Lisa painted 10 years earlier, experts believe
Discovery News via FoxNews ^ | September 27, 2012 | Discovery News

Posted on 10/01/2012 5:51:27 AM PDT by jmcenanly



Leonardo da Vinci painted a younger and happier Mona Lisa some 10 years before painting the famous painting, art experts are claiming. Slightly larger in size than the famous portrait,‭ ‬which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris,‭ ‬the painting features‭ ‬a darker tonality,‭ ‬a different and unfinished background framed by two columns,‭ ‬and‭ ‬shows a younger lady with a less enigmatic smile. Known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa,‭ ‬the artwork will be unveiled in Geneva on Thursday by the Mona Lisa Foundation,‭ ‬a Zurich‭-based consortium which has‭ ‬kept the painting in a Swiss bank vault for‭ ‬40‭ ‬years.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: davinci; florence; godsgravesglyphs; isleworth; isleworthmonalisa; italy; leonardo; leonardodavinci; monalisa; santissimaannunziata
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To: libertarian27

Yes, but she did start to dye her hair.

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41 posted on 10/01/2012 10:51:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: jmcenanly
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There. Fixed it. Now can I get my check?

42 posted on 10/01/2012 11:09:54 AM PDT by newheart (At what point does policy become treason?)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Older Mona Lisa resigned to be a content Cat Lady.


43 posted on 10/01/2012 11:58:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: BuffaloJack
It's my understanding that the Mona Lisa has been stolen several times and removed for one extended period.

Certainly many others have painted copies.


44 posted on 10/01/2012 12:03:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Casie
. I was blown away by the scale and color and complete unedited enthusiasm of the brush strokes. I just had no idea! Dorm room posters and internet pictures just can not show you the wild colors, the thickness in which the layers of paint are applied and the dizzying motion that the textures create!

Internet is killing appreciation of music and artworks (paintings, drawings, photos).

And fewer people seem to be using their hands to create (photoshop can it for them and instagram "has so many EFX!!!").

Yes, size does matter, viewing things as thumbnails on a laptop or on an iphone is no substitute.

45 posted on 10/01/2012 12:06:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Ditter
I also take failed paintings and paint over them and reuse the canvas/board for a totally different painting. All artist do this. There might be a failed painting under every success. :)

Canvases weren't a cheap commodity way back when either. Archivists have taken to x-raying paintings to reveal other works underneath them.

46 posted on 10/01/2012 12:07:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: AnalogReigns

I think that the mysterious look in the eyes may be due to the accumulation of expression lines. the painting we are familiar with show a woman who has lived.
47 posted on 10/01/2012 4:24:10 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jmcenanly

I thought I read that the “young Mona Lisa” was painted on canvas, which was not available to DiVinci at the time.


48 posted on 10/01/2012 4:28:48 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Ditter

I much rather look at a spectaular Bierstadt than the Mona Lisa any day.


49 posted on 10/01/2012 4:31:03 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: jmcenanly

They showed on Discovery? Mona Lisa was actually a inverted self portrait of Da vinci. he made her or himself a women obviously.
Was quite convincing.


50 posted on 10/01/2012 4:33:15 PM PDT by Leep
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To: Leep

Here is a overlay of Da vinci and Mona Lisa. Its not hard to conceive considering he wrote backwards and so on.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0yhVo-TfeQg/S39-lq6mAyI/AAAAAAAAEcs/Gci4ay2vUgU/s400/90.jpg


51 posted on 10/01/2012 4:44:37 PM PDT by Leep
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To: Ditter
There is a circular room in a famous Paris art museum not the Louver (can't think of the name right now) and the walls, floor to ceiling, are all Monet's waterlillies all around the room. It is so fabulous, it took my breath away.

Musee National De L'Orangerie

52 posted on 10/01/2012 4:49:36 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: EVO X

Is that the name? I am sure you are correct but that doesn’t ring a bell with me.


53 posted on 10/01/2012 6:09:20 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter
Is that the name?

Yep. It is in the southwest corner of the Tuleries park. The Louvre is at the east end of the park..

54 posted on 10/02/2012 2:25:32 AM PDT by EVO X
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Thanks jmcenanly.

55 posted on 12/02/2013 9:50:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Thanks jmcenanly.
Isleworth Mona Lisa keyword:
56 posted on 10/23/2017 6:05:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Note: this topic is from 10/01/2012. Thanks jmcenanly. Just a ping message update.
islesworth mona lisa
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57 posted on 02/15/2020 7:29:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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