The Jocond by Léonard de Vinci exposed to the Louvre Museum

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The Jocond or Mona Lisa's portrait is an Italian painting created Leonard da Vinci, between 1506 and 1509. Oil on panel of poplar wood sized 77 x 55 cm, it is displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Jocond is one of the rare paintings that are attributed with certainty to Leonard da Vinci. It is a mythical painting, which constitutes the outcome of the 15th century searches on the representation of the portrait. Nowadays, it is undoubtedly one of the most famous works of art in the world linked to the Louvre Museum and to the notion of art in general.

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[...] Francesco possesses a domestic chapel which accommodates Léonard de Vinci in one thousand five hundred one. Francesco, who looks for a painter to realize the portrait of his wife, turns to Léonard de Vinci. Second hypothesis, Mona Lisa's face could be put on top of Catherine Sforza's face, princess of Forli, in a portrait painted by Lorenzo di Credi and preserved in Forli's Museum in Italy. The title of the painting is probably linked to the patronymic of the subject Giocondo” which means “happy, healthy” in Italian. [...]

[...] The preservation system of the painting, composed of a oak frame prevents the panel from bending itself. Only anxieties, an irregular and turned yellow varnish which darkens little by little the painting; and a crack of eleven centimetres coming down from the superior edge until Mona Lisa's temple affects it since long time. But this last one seems to be stabilized. Subjected to several tests and studies, the painting seems to be in very good state of conservation. The wood is healthy and the pictorial layer “almost unreal”. [...]

[...] After being got back, the picture is exposed in nineteen sixty three (1963) in the United States and in nineteen seventy four (1974) in Japan. The Jocond travelled a lot, even in France where it is transported repeatedly, at the Central Museum of Arts, in the Castle of Versailles under Louis XIV, in the Tuileries during the First Empire, and integrates the Louvre under the Restoration. The Louvre Museum is one of the most older museums and the third bigger in the world in term of surface: and dedicated to exhibitions. [...]

[...] Oil on panel of wood and poplar of 77 x 55 cm, it's exposed to the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Jocond is one of the rare painting attributed in a sure way to Leonard de Vinci. Become a mythical painting, it constitutes the outcome of the 15th century searches on the representation of the portrait. Nowadays, it's without contesting, one of the most famous work of art in the world, today linked to the Louvre Museum and to the notion of art in general. [...]

[...] The Jocond is painted on a wooden support of poplar. The subtle effects of the light and the quality of the landscape situated in the background, highlight the face of the woman. The blurred of the painting is characteristic of the sfumato technical which is a vaporous effect, obtained with the superimposing of several extremely delicate layers of paint which gives to the picture indistinct outlines. This technical is used in particular for the eyes in the put in shade. [...]