Summary of Critical Comparisons
This section highlights similarities and the differences between the earlier and Louvre versions of Mona Lisa paintings, and...
Critical Comparisons
Comparative Study
“Human subtlety … will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature,...
Multiple Comparison Study
As mentioned, there are literally dozens of copies and variations of the Mona Lisa; some good, and some...
The ‘Prado Mona Lisa’
This interesting portrait was first referred to in the 1666 inventory in the Galleria del Mediodia del Alcazar...
The Importance of the Columns and their Shadows
If one were to ask why one of the two original Mona Lisas has flanking columns, and the...
The Unique Embroideries
Leonardo’s passion, almost obsession, for knots has been touched on in previous chapters, but this topic is like...
Leonardo da Vinci’s influence on Raphael
In his masterwork, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, first published in 1550, Giorgio...
The Regression Project
As has been exhaustively detailed in other sections of the website, Leonardo likely completed the Louvre ‘Mona Lisa’...