Both eyes have western personality.
Silvano Winchetti, chairman of the Italian National Cultural Heritage Committee, observed the Mona Lisa's eyes in the oil painting with a microscope and found tiny characters.
The Guardian 12 quoted Winchetti as saying: "You can't see it with the naked eye. Her green-brown right eyeball is painted with a black LV, which is obviously the initials of Leonardo da Vinci. " Winchetti said that the characters on the left eyeball have not been recognized. "It's hard to say clearly ... but it looks like the letter CE, or it may be B or S." Leonardo da Vinci was keen on using symbols and passwords to convey information.
Compared with the right eye, the content in the left eye of Mona Lisa is worth exploring.
Winchetti said that the characters on the left eyeball have not been recognized. "it's hard to say clearly ... but it looks like the letter CE, or it may be b or s."
"This painting is almost 500 years old," he explained, and the clarity and sharpness of the painting are not as good as those of that year.
Besides the eyes, there are people hidden in other places of the painting.
Winchetti said, "You can see the number 72 on the arch of the bridge in the background, or it may be the letter L and the number 2."
Leonardo da vinci was not only an outstanding Italian painter in the Renaissance, but also showed extraordinary talents in the fields of science and philosophy. He is keen on using symbols and passwords to convey information. Winchetti believes that Leonardo da Vinci hides characters in his eyes because "eyes are the windows of the soul" and are a way of communication.
Mona Lisa's identity adds mystery.
It is found that the characters in the eyes add mystery to the true identity of Mona Lisa. Winchetti speculated that Leonardo wanted others to find out who the Mona Lisa was in her eyes.
Ever since this famous painting came out, people have been arguing about the true identity of the Mona Lisa.
A popular saying is that her real name is Lisa Ghelardini, and she is the wife of a businessman in Florence. Some historians believe that Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci painted himself as a woman because he was gay and his love life was unknown. American writer dan brown mentioned in his book The Da Vinci Code that the name Mona Lisa may be a crossword puzzle, implying an Egyptian god.
Winchetti thinks the Mona Lisa was written in Milan.
He said: "There are three numbers'149' written on the back of the work, and the fourth number has been erased. (Based on this), it can be inferred that he (Da Vinci) completed this work in Milan in the 1990s of 15. "
Winchetti said that their research on the characters in Mona Lisa's eyes is still in its infancy, and they look forward to "exploring this secret more deeply and revealing more details as soon as possible".
Some people say that she is Da Vinci's mother, or Da Vinci's secret crush. Others say that she was a famous prostitute in Florence at that time. What's even more outrageous is that some people say that Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci ... Among many speculations, vasari, a famous art historian in16th century, once put forward a view that Mona Lisa is the wife of a wealthy businessman named Gioconda in Florence, but this simple view is not valid. Until 2005, Dr. Amin schleich, an expert in manuscript research at the University of Heidelberg, found conclusive evidence among the old papers in the library-an ancient book of 1503. The owner of this book is Augoustinos vespucci, a close friend of Leonardo da Vinci and a local official in Florence. In the margin of the book, Weiss Pucci scribbled: "Da Vinci is like the ancient Greek painter Apelles. He is working on three paintings, one of which is a portrait of Gradini Weiss Pucci. "
This coincides with what vasari said in16th century. He said that the full name of "the wife of the wealthy businessman Jokunda" is lisa gherardini Jokunda-Gradini is her father's surname and Jokunda is her husband's surname.
Two years later, the library of Heidelberg University issued a statement that Dr. schleich's discovery completely ruled out all previous speculations about Mona Lisa's identity and ended the mystery of Mona Lisa's identity that lasted for hundreds of years.
Born into a declining aristocratic family
Husband and Da Vinci's father are good friends.
Limited evidence shows that she was born in June 1479 in an ancient family in Florence, the eldest of seven children. At that time, Europe was in the early Renaissance. As one of the largest cities in Europe, Florence is regarded as a symbol of wealth and commercial success. However, city life is not a wonderful pastoral poem for local residents, because the wealth distribution is extremely disparity. Lisa comes from an ancient aristocrat, but this family is gradually losing its influence in the long river of time.
1On March 5th, 495, 16-year-old Lisa got married. Her husband is a successful silk merchant in the same city, and she is the man's third wife. Lisa's dowry is 170 Frohring gold coins and a farm in the suburbs. Lisa's marriage has improved her social status to a certain extent, because her husband is rich, and Mr. Jokunda is considered to benefit from this marriage because of Lisa's noble surname. The newlyweds were living a comfortable middle-class life in Florence. They have five children altogether.
1503 On March 5th, Lisa and her husband moved to a house near Via della Stufa. The father who lived next door to them was Da Vinci. Lisa's husband and Da Vinci's father became good friends.
Put your right hand on your left hand as a sign of courtesy.
Clothing shows the fashion of the time.
Like many families who lived in Florence and owned certain property at that time, whenever something important happened at home, Lisa's family would remember these important moments in the form of artistic creation. 1503 is a special year for their family. They moved to a new home, and Lisa was just pregnant with their third child. Mr. Qiao Kangda invited four artists to create around these important events in their families. One of them is to invite the neighbor's son Da Vinci to paint a personal portrait of Lisa.
During the period of 1503, Leonardo got into financial disputes and had no income, which partly explained why he was interested in painting private portraits, and his father actively contributed to this. Lisa's right hand is placed on her left hand, which fully shows her gentle and loyal behavior. And her clothes also reflected the fashion at that time. Some scholars believe that the state shown in Lisa's portrait may be more realistic than her real situation. Moreover, this portrait has a large area, which is the size that relatively wealthy art collectors would choose at that time. This extravagant and generous style is also explained as the enterprising spirit of Lisa and his wife.
The portrait was painted for ten years, but it was hidden because of two family disputes?
Leonardo da vinci spent more than ten years painting this personal portrait for Lisa. Some scholars believe that this may be because Leonardo da Vinci accepted some more important jobs during this period. But in the end, Da Vinci didn't give the painting to Lisa. Some scholars think this is because Leonardo didn't get paid. However, some scholars have found through research that the reason is not so simple.
In fact, Leonardo da Vinci's choice may have something to do with the famous medici family in Florence at that time. Medici was the most prominent family in Italy from 15 to 16. Leonardo da Vinci's Pope Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici Giovanni Medici came from this family. Medici family loved art and generously sponsored a large number of artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. On the other hand, the money they spent on art was obtained by exploiting people's wealth, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many other Florentine nobles, including Lisa's maiden Gradini family. 1503, when Leonardo painted Lisa, the contradiction between the two families intensified to the point of fighting each other. Trapped in it, Leonardo da Vinci cut off contact with Lisa's family. 15 1 1 year, Florence was attacked by the papal army and the Gradini family was exiled. Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for France with Lisa's portrait around 15 17.
The remains of the monastery that died at the age of 64 have disappeared.
In the dispute with medici family, Lisa's husband was also involved in prison, but luckily he was released soon. After that, the fate of the woman in this painting became a blank.
Until 2007, Giuseppe Palanti, an Italian scholar engaged in the study of art history, finally found a yellowed document, which is Lisa's death file. According to the documents, Lisa's husband died of the plague on 1538 at the age of 79. At that time, 59-year-old Lisa was seriously ill and was taken to St. Ona Monastery in Florence by her nun daughter. She lived there for more than four years and then died at the age of 64. Lisa's last parting was not sad. Almost the whole parish came to her funeral. She was finally buried in St. Ona Monastery.
After finding the burial place of Mona Lisa, people can't help thinking: Maybe we can find Lisa's DNA and use today's technology to "revive" her in front of our eyes again.
However, this discovery came a little late. Because people are surprised to find that, except for a few external walls and some arches left in14th century, the once-flourishing St. Ona Monastery has long since ceased to exist. Instead, it is a tobacco factory and a university laboratory. As early as 30 years ago, the developer had dug up the cemetery and foundation of St. Ona Monastery, and Lisa's body was missing. The Florence government recently revealed that it intends to build a memorial hall for the Mona Lisa on the original site of St. Ona Monastery.
Rarely from the eyes to study.
Mona Lisa is famous for its charming smile, and it is seldom studied from her eyes.
Talking about the reasons for studying eyes, Winchetti told the Daily Mail that he was inspired by a book.
Winchetti said that his colleague Luigi bolgia found a moldy old book in a shop, which was written by a French historian in the 1960s. According to the description in the book, Mona Lisa's eyes are "covered with all kinds of marks and characters".
"It is worth mentioning that no one has noticed these symbols before," Winchetti said, adding that these characters were not scribbled or formed at will.
"We consulted two experts and learned that these characters were drawn in miniature under a magnifying glass." He said.
Winchetti is good at studying unpopular themes in Renaissance art. In June this year, he discovered the remains of another Renaissance painter, Michelangelo Melzi-Caravaggio.