Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci did paint an earlier and much younger version of his masterpiece Mona Lisa, experts have confirmed. Art experts claim that Isleworth Mona Lisa, unearthed in 2012, which shows a significantly younger subject, may be several years older than its more famous counterpart. ...
05:58 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Geneva: A Zurich-based foundation says it will prove to the world on Thursday that Leonardo Da Vinci painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa, a claim doubted by at least one expert on the multifaceted Renaissance artist. The Mona Lisa Foundation, which has been working with the anonymous owners of the "Isleworth Mona Lisa," says that after 35 years of research, experts believe it predates the famed 16th-century masterpiece...
03:02 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Curators at the Prado Museum in Madrid have unveiled a copy of the Mona Lisa which was apparently painted at exactly the same time by a student, just feet away from da Vinci. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 22, 2012
London: The Da Vinci Code may have been a popular e-book for years, but now readers around the world can view the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel in high definition on iPad as the British Library launches its 'e-book treasures' series. The Italian manuscript written in Da Vinci's characteristic 'mirror writing' - left-handed and moving from right to left - is a collection of notes, drawings and short...
07:22 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Florence: Archaeologists in Italy's Florence city have uncovered a skeleton they believe could be the 500 year-old remains of the noblewoman who is believed to have posed for Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa masterpiece. An excavation that started earlier this month of what was once the convent of Saint Orsola, where Lisa Gherardini - the wife of wealthy silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo - was buried following her death in...
04:31 PM, May 30, 2011
Florence: Researchers have begun their hunt for the remains of the woman who might have been the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, hoping to unravel a mystery that has baffled art historians for over five centuries. A team of experts armed with a special radar device descended this week on a dilapidated convent in Florence where they believe the body of the woman who modeled for da Vinci...
07:26 PM, Apr 29, 2011
London: For centuries, experts have been tyring to figure out the reason for her enigmatic smile. Now, it's claimed that Mona Lisa may have been hiding a remarkable secret -- she was actually a man. An Italian art historian has claimed that the model in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was one of his male muses, a young man called Gian Giacomo Caprotti, whose nose and mouth bear striking similarities to...
07:33 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: Mona Lisa, the 16th century muse of Italian artist Leonardo Di ser Piero da Vinci, is fodder for neo-contemporary geek art even 500 years after the eponymous painting was created. The wife of the Florentine silk merchant, Lisa del Giocondo, made famous by Vinci's painting, reigns on the collective aesthetic imagination with her enigmatic smile in a variety of avatars that ranges from the hairy, masculine, clownish, aggressive...
11:08 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Roscommon, Michigan: A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by making a replica out of laundry lint. Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter's masterpiece. Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to recreate...
02:37 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Rome: Forget her smile. An Italian researcher says the key to solving the enigmas of "Mona Lisa" lies in her eyes. Silvano Vinceti claims he has found the letter "S" in the woman's left eye, the letter "L" in her right eye, and the number "72" under the arched bridge in the backdrop of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting. According to the researcher, the symbols open up new leads to...
10:59 AM, Jan 13, 2011
Toronto: The famous Mona Lisa incorporates images inspired by Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch, says a professor. The technique of taking a passage from literature and incorporating it into a work of art is known as 'invention' and was used by many Renaissance artists, the Italian journal MEDICEA reports. "The composition of the Mona Lisa is striking. Why does Leonardo (da Vinci) have an attractive woman sitting on...
10:51 AM, Jan 08, 2011
London: The Mona Lisa painting continues to throw up mysteries, as art experts now claim to have found a set of tiny letters painted into the eyes of the woman in the Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece. The experts - from Italy's National Cultural Heritage committee - discovered the mysterious hidden message while studying magnified images of the 500-year-old portrait. "In the right eye appears to be the letters LV, which...
04:07 PM, Dec 13, 2010
NANTES, France: A long-lost fragment of manuscript by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been uncovered in a public library in western France after lying forgotten in storage for nearly one and a half centuries. The text, written from right to left in Da Vinci's trademark mirror-writing, was among 5,000 documents donated to the city of Nantes in 1872 by wealthy collector Pierre-Antoine Labouchere, and then left to languish in...
04:06 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Sotheby's said the painting, artist unknown, sold on Thursday. ...
12:50 PM, Jan 29, 2010
The woman was immediately arrested and sent for psychological test. ...
04:46 PM, Aug 11, 2009
A musician claims musical notes are encoded in
Last Supper. ...
01:26 PM, Nov 10, 2007
The masterpiece,
Madonna with the Yarnwinder, was at the centre of a worldwide search since 2003. ...
08:59 AM, Oct 06, 2007
It has been 500 years but Mona Lisa still has people foxed, confused, astonished and bewildered. ...
01:38 PM, Oct 05, 2006
Mona Lisa had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert says. ...
11:11 AM, Sep 28, 2006
Scientists are due to unveil some of the secrets behind Western art's most enigmatic smile. ...
09:50 AM, Sep 26, 2006
