Indeed, the Mona Lisa is a very realistic portrait. The subject’s softly sculptural face shows Leonardo’s skillful handling of sfumato, an artistic technique that uses subtle gradations of light and shadow to model form, and shows his understanding of the skull beneath the skin.

The Mona Lisa is an oil painting by Italian artist, inventor, and writer Leonardo da Vinci. Likely completed in 1506, the piece features a portrait of a seated woman set against an imaginary landscape. In addition to being one of the most famous works of art, it is also the most valuable.

The Italians have a word to explain Mona Lisa’s smile: sfumato. It means blurry, ambiguous and up to the imagination.

Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. This painting is painted as oil on wood. It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested by the word “gioconda” in Italian. …

Based on the mid-sixteenth century biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari, many historians believe the painting is a portrait of Madam Lisa Giocondo, wife of a wealthy Florentine. It is from Vasari that the painting received the name Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda in Italian or La Joconde in French.

Depicted by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in 1893, The Scream is the most famous representation of the modern man facing an existential crisis. The artist created five versions of this artwork but the one above is actually the most famous. In fact, the artwork was sold for more than US$106.5 million in May 2012

The Scream is part of a series known as “The Frieze of Life,” which depicts highly charged, affective moments related to themes of life, mysticism, love, and death.

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