A Well-Recognized Oil Painting, The Mona Lisa

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The Mona Lisa is a recognized oil painting on cottonwood. Leonardo created the Mona Lisa in three years, 1503-1506. The lady in the painting is Lisa Gherardini. Her husband, Fraceso del Gioconda, requested that Leonardo painted the picture. It is a well-known painting because Leonardo used a shadowing technique near the eyes and lips causing those features to look life like. The painting is now held in the Louvre, a museum, in Paris, France. It is held in a bulletproof case because the painting has been vandalized many times. One time someone threw acid at the painting causing a distorted bottom section of the painting. It has also had a rock thrown at it. The rock caused a chip near the elbow and had been painted over. The painting has also been stolen from the museum. In 1911, it was stolen, the main suspect was Picasso. He was arrested for theft after being questioned. He was later released. The museum thought the painting was gone forever, when in 1913 Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft. He had been a worker at the Louvre. …show more content…
It depicts Jesus and his twelve disciples eating their last meal together before one of them betrays him and causes him to be arrested and later crucified. It was created in1495-1498. It is a fresco like painting on a wall in the dining hall of the monastery of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The Last Supper uses Jesus as the focal point. He is outlined by the door in the background, this brings the viewer’s eyes straight to the center/ main focus of the painting. Leonardo may have spent three years on the painting but it started to deteriorate about sixty years later. It got so bad that it needed to be restored. They restored it three major times, the first time they restored it, and they did an awful job. The latest restore took over twenty years to
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