{"id":10023,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"da-vinci-s-mona-lisa-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/da-vinci-s-mona-lisa-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Portrait\" alt=\"Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mona-lisa-small-b6cf3be51524.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) c. 1503-5 by Leonardo da Vinci Oil on panel, 77 x 53 cm Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a> artist Leonardo da Vinci was probably begun in 1503 and completed in 1506. She is identified by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10044\">Giorgio Vasari<\/a>, art historian and contemporary of da Vinci, as Lisa Gioconda, the wife of a Florentine merchant who was friend to Leonardo\u2019s father. Da Vinci never delivered the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait to a patron. He took it with him to France in 1516 when he was summoned by the French king, Francis I. There is conjecture as to why the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait remained in Da Vinci&#8217;s possession. Perhaps it was a patronage problem, or perhaps there never was a patron. The <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait may have been merely an exercise for Leonardo da Vinci in perfecting his <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#sfumato\">sfumato<\/a> technique. With his interest in the rendering of atmospheric <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#perspective\">perspective<\/a>, da Vinci would have considered such an exercise in perspective challenging. The mysterious landscape in the background of the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait is unrivaled in its depth and hazy atmospheric perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s death in Amboise on May 2, 1519, he sold the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait to the French king, Francis I, for 4,000 \u00e9cus (a gold or silver coin whose denomination varied over the centuries. The <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait, much more famous today than it was in the artist\u2019s time, has become an icon worldwide for the grace and beauty of the mysterious woman with the enigmatic smile. After the French Revolution, the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait graced Napoleon\u2019s bedroom in the <em>Tuilieries<\/em>. The <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> portrait is currently located in Paris in the <em>Louvre<\/em> where an excellent discussion and close-up of the work can be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mona Lisa portrait by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was probably begun in 1503 and completed in 1506. She is identified by Giorgio Vasari, art historian and contemporary of da Vinci, as Lisa Gioconda, the wife of a Florentine merchant who was friend to Leonardo\u2019s father. Da Vinci never delivered the Mona Lisa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}