Portrait Of Mona Lisa By Leonardo

Portrait Of Mona Lisa By Leonardo. The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape. In the Mona Lisa, Leonardo illustrates exquisite synthesis of the sitter and landscape, the Mona Lisa set the standard for all future portraits.

It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant. The Mona Lisa is a disguised self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a new book claims. When I visited the Lourve in Paris a couple of years ago I was stunned by the crowds of people gathering around this small image, pushing and shoving to get close and to take a picture of it (I got some great shots of the crowd).

Mona Lisa's secret has been debated for many centuries.

Furthermore, Leonardo's portrait of the Mona Lisa includes curls in her hair and folds in her clothing.

Leonardo took this painting with him to France when he joined the court of the French King, and after his death, the picture entered King François I's collection. The painting is now in the Muse du Louvre in Paris. The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape.