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The Mona Lisa Background

Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. According to contemporaries of Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari, "... after spending four years there, leaving unfinished ...." He is expected to remain on it for three years after having completed and returned to France for him shortly before his death in 1519.Leonardo taken painting from Italy to France in 1516 when King Francois I invited the painter to Clos Luce near the royal castle of Amboise in the work. Probably by the heirs of assistant Salai by Leonardo da Vinci, the king bought Table ECU for 4000 and kept at Fontainebleau, where he remained until given to Louis XIV. Louis XIV will paint at the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, he was moved to the Louvre. Napoleon had moved in his room at the Tuileries, and later she was back in the Louvre. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) was the Louvre to a hiding moved elsewhere in France.

Mona Lisa was not good until the mid-nineteenth century was known as an artist began to appreciate the emerging Symbolist movement, and associated with their ideas on the Feminine Mystique. Critic Walter Pater in his essay on Leonardo da Vinci in 1867 expressed this view in the image of the painting as a kind of fashion myth of the eternal feminine, which is older than the rocks it sits "and "Many deaths may have been sometimes, and learned the secrets of the grave. "