
Mona Lisa
1504 · Louvre, Paris
She was probably Lisa Gherardini, a merchant's wife, and Leonardo kept reworking her for years and never handed the portrait over.
★ 9.9

She was probably Lisa Gherardini, a merchant's wife, and Leonardo kept reworking her for years and never handed the portrait over.

The marble block had been abandoned as flawed before Michelangelo took it, and he carved a boy who is watching Goliath, not beating him.

Bellini painted the brocade thread by thread and turned the official portrait from a profile on a coin into a man met face to face.

Cat, mouse, rabbit, ox and elk stand for the temperaments held in balance, and the cat is about to pounce.