#mona lisa
In 1987, just shy of her 85th birthday, Baltimore heroine, baseball enthusiast and volunteer “Aunt” Mary Dobkin passed away. Crippled by frostbite at a young age, Aunt Mary was a pioneer in working with children and developing baseball teams around the city to create safe havens for the children to stay out of trouble. Her activism was brought to national attention in 1979 when Jean Stapleton starred in the movie about her life entitled “Aunt Mary.” (Irving H. Phillips Jr., Baltimore Sun photo, 1979)
1762: Ann Franklin became the first female editor of an American newspaper, the Newport, R.I., Mercury.
1787: Inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.
1902: President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn.
1911: It was announced in Paris that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” had been stolen from the Louvre Museum the night before. (The painting turned up two years later, in Italy.)
Compiled by Carly Heideger and Paul McCardell.
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Danny DeVinci….this is all
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r u tired Mona?
Ok but what if Leonardo da Vinci would have had…you know…better tools on hand.
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One of my favorite photos, taken by my friend Sean, posted with permission.
I’m not a huge fan of La Joconde, mais there’s always a flock of people around it. Living in Paris for nearly a year, I’ve begun to regard short-stay tourists with some sort of fascination. I will never experience the city in that way. It will always hold this feeling of an old home, I think.
Like a house you lived in as a young child, the neighborhood might change and different plants grow, and maybe someone renovates it, but it still maintains some essential familiarity.
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Crowley gets drunk with Leonardo Da Vinci - from the Good Omens Script Book (a book I highly recommend) - plus gifs of Crowley with his Mona Lisa
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hands.
/ michaelangelo / carvaggio / da vinci / cara thayer & louie van patten /
Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II (1945)
la “Joconde” vue par
Mitsuki Futaro 彌月風太朗 (1970 - ).
Le jeune artiste japonais est né en 1970 à Tōkyō. Il est diplômé de l'Université Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Tōkyō.
Son travail se fait sur le papier avec un crayon et de l'acrylique.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the history of Western art, was stolen from the Louve Museum in Paris at 7:20 on 21 August 1911. As the museum’s night security guard was leaving the building, a mustachioed man in a mac jumped out of a cleaning cupboard, cut the painting loose from its frame, rolled up the canvas and simply hid it under his jacket. The thief was let out of the building by an innocent handyman who was making some morning repairs, hailed a taxi and disappeared in the morning traffic. Surprisingly, nobody spotted the Mona Lisa’s disappearance until Tuesday: the museum was closed on Mondays, and security staff thought that the painting had been removed to be photographed. Indeed, the museum’s first response to the disappearance was: “When beautiful women are not with their lover, they are posing for their photographer!” But it soon became obvious that nobody was quite sure of where the painting was. The police inspected the museum and interrogated the security guards, all to no avail. Meanwhile, more and more curious visitor were queuing up in front of the empty frame: it was then that the Mona Lisa became the tourist sensation it has been ever since.
Discovering the thief proved surprisingly difficult for such a high profile case. Indeed, political and personal disagreements resulted in several fake accusations which shook the contemporary cultural world. For example, a deserted lover wrongly accused poet Guillaume Apollinaire of having bought several antique statuettes stolen from the Louvre. The case eventually solved itself: in December 1912, Florentine antiquarian Alfredo Geri received an anonymous letter saying: “I have the painting, it belongs to Italy as Leonardo was Italian.” The thief asked for a moderate ransom in return for the artwork. The exchange took place in a modest pension in Florence, now renamed “La Gioconda” to celebrate the important historical moment which quietly took place on its third floor. The identity of the thief was revealed and he was swiftly arrested. His name was Vincenzo Peruggia, a painter-decorator who had emigrated to France. Peruggia was tried in Italy at the same time as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria triggered the First World War. Peruggia’s defense was based on his patriotism, as he was convinced that the painting had reached France after having stolen by Napoleon during his invasion of Italy (actually, it is almost certain that Leonardo himself took the painting to France when he settled at the Court of King François I in 1516/17). His arguments were rather successful in those warmongering days: he was condemned to one year and fifteen days in prison, of which he only served seven and a half months. He later started a family and opened a paint shop in the north west of Italy, without ever revealing if his crime had been orchestrated by some greedy foreign collector or enterprising forger, for example the Argentinian conman and self-styled Marquis Eduardo de Valfierno.
Reference: Stefano Bucci, ‘Furto della Gioconda, cent’anni di mito’ Corriere della Sera, 8 August 2011, http://www.corriere.it/cultura/11_agosto_19/bucci-furto-gioconda-mito_18b7675c-c1a5-11e0-9d6c-129de315fa51.shtml?refresh_ce-cp; Martin Kemp, “Leonardo da Vinci,” Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T050401.
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), c. 1503-5, oil on panel, 77 x 53 cm,Musée du Louvre, Paris. Source: Web Gallery of Art.
Mug shot of Vincenzo Peruggia in 1909
Le Petit Parisien newspaper reports the theft of the Mona Lisa, 23 August 1911
The Excelsior newspaper publishes pictures of the growing crowds in front of the Mona Lisa’s empty spot, 23 August 1911
Le Petit Parisien celebrates the recovery of the Mona Lisa, 14 December 1913
The Excelsior reconstructs the crime, January 1913
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“I was never again able to look at the Mona Lisa with a straight face after reading , “Ah, yes, the Mona Lisa, that smile she has on her face, it looks to me like the smile of a woman who at that particular moment has just finished eating her own husband for breakfast.”.“ – Sophia Loren
Note: Don’t get confused. It’s a quote Sophia read, liked and recited. She didn’t make it up herself.
