INSIDE MONA LISA (PART-III)

Till Part II, we have came to know about every minute differences between Earlier Mona Lisa and Louvre Mona Lisa, including some other versions of Mona Lisa. But the main confusion wasn't still solved. which one was the original work of Leonardo da Vinci, EARLIER MONA LISA or LOUVRE MONA LISA? So, to solve that puzzle came into field, Andrew Graham Dixon, British historian and broadcaster. 

            Read the whole article to know how the riddle has been solved step by step.

                               

ANDREW GRAHAM DIXON

Andrew Michael Graham Dixon is a British art historian and broadcaster has done a world tour in order to reveal the various secrets of Mona Lisa which had remain mystery for centuries and an enigmatic topic for all the scholars and obviously for common people. But, now it seemed that the painting is revealing her secrets one by one. Old documentaries, old forgotten truths and advanced art technologies, are slowly helping us to go beneath the painted surface, to decode the real truth.

                So the first question came to his mind that, “Who was Mona Lisa?” Neither she was famous nor any historical character but what made Mona Lisa to be the most famous painting of the world?

                He started his invention from Oxford Professor, Martin Kemp, who spend much of his life obsessed by mystery of Mona Lisa. According to him, there must be some famous in the infamous women which make it an extraordinary work. The visualities, body posture has much to say us which is beyond our thinking. As by Prof. Kemp, the smile of Mona Lisa in the panting referred as ‘teasing smile’.

                According to Andrew Graham Dixon, Leonardo’s knowledge on anatomy was so deep that he had drawn each part of Mona Lisa’s portrait separately before putting them in same painting. He referred to a sketch only of smiling lips and referred it as a “smile of Mona Lisa without Mona Lisa”. Leonardo dis each and every minute studies on various position of lips either talking or shouting just only to draw Mona Lisa’s smile.

GIORGIO VASARI 

        Vasari an Italian painter of 16^th century said that the women in the portrait was wife of the rich businessman, Francesco del Giocondo, who used to commission Leonardo. Amusers , entertainers,

But was Vasari correct?

In 2006, a research scholar working in Heidelburgh University, found out a page of a book on Cicero, ancient Roman Orator written by Agostino Vespucci, made a note that Cicero did the same thing as Leonardo did in his portrait Lisa del Giocondo and the best of all was that there was a date mentioned of October 1503. Thus, proves that Vasari was right at least in one thing that Lisa was literally painted by Vinci.

            Now, the next question arises that why Leonardo draw Lisa del Giocondo, although she was from a very humble family! To reveal the truth, Dixon visited the place where Lisa used to reside, known as Via de Pepi, and then near Santa Croce. From there Dixon came to know that Lisa, wife of Francesco, a businessman and aggressive dealmaker, used to live just opposite to the house of Leonardo. Not only they were neighbors, but Francesco was a clerk in Leonardo’s father business, Ser Piero. At 1542, when Lisa died, thousands of people followed her coffin. By then, she became an important person in the heart of the city Florence. But another mystery was still there that whether Leonardo’s portrait of Lisa and portrait of Louvre are same? Whether both the portraits may have been drawn by Leonardo? Was Louvre Mona Lisa, a second version of Leonardo?

   ANATOMICAL STUDY OF LEONARDO 

  Dixon then went to Singapore where a version of Lisa was kept in the Art Gallery under high security. Dixon couldn’t say that whether it was the actual version of Lisa and Louvre was the copy of Isleworth Lisa. But one thing, Dixon did mysteriously said that the picture was having a “really teasing smile”.

RAPHAEL'S SKETCH

 When Dixon exchanged his views with Jean Pierre Isbouts, bestselling author, historian, the latter replied that Isleworth is not a copy because there are many unique things present in Isleworth picture that is not present in the Louvre painting. For e.g., the robustic door columns present in Isleworth painting but not in Louvre painting. He also told Isleworth painting was the first work of Vinci because the sketch found drawn by Raphael included the two columns. Raphael has done the sketch by remembering the painting he had seen in Leonardo’s studio in 1504. Thus, according to Jean Pierre Isbouts, Isleworth Mona Lisa is the actual work of Vinci, which is referred as “Earlier Mona Lisa”. 

PASCAL COTTE

                Then Dixon visited Pascal Cotte, a French scientist, who had been working for the last decade revealing different secrets beneath the painting. His new invention of the multi-spectral camera had revealed almost all the secrets. 13 different wavelength of colour has been projected over the painting penetrating different depth. So, what Pascal discovered was that there was another painting beneath Mona Lisa. A much bigger head,

nose size was double and same for hands, was found to be painted previously that of Mona Lisa. Secondly, Pascal found missing hairpins. Holes of hairpins have been found in the painting, beneath the now, Lisa. 12 number of hairpins have been found which suggest a headdress had been drawn previously by Leonardo. Furthermore, Pascal discovered how Leonardo used to draw stage by stage, layer after layer, so mathematically and so scientifically. Pascal, found the real Lisa del Giocondo beneath the world famous painting, Mona Lisa. Thus, there was two picture in the same frame.

                 The last piece of puzzle was solved by the leading expert of Renaissance hairstyle and costume who prove that Pascal Cotte realty found the actual Lisa del Giocondo beneath Mona Lisa. She put forward various instance like the ling hair falling to the shoulder was not acceptable to an ordinary women until and unless she is of high rank in society. Furthermore, Pascal’s digitalized picture was similar to Raphael’s sketch of Leonardo’s Lisa, who had actually seen him painting. Thus, Louvre Lisa wasn’t the real one.

                Thus, finally Andrew Graham Dixon conclude that actual Lisa del Giocondo, wife of Francesco del Giocondo was hiding behind today’s Mona Lisa. So, Dixon finally conclude, that it’s our destiny to pass through life as swiftly as the smile flickers on the human face. So, Mona Lisa isn’t really Mona Lisa, but much more than that, it’s a painting of life itself as Leonardo think about it.

musicians were placed top entertain Lisa while her portrait was being made. The result of that enigmatic smile was due to the heart breathing entertainment by entertainers.