Mona Lisa 25 Secrets by Leonardo da Vinci

opportunity of a lifetime .. to have seen the world

most famous painting and of cost .. most expensive too

La Gioconda  or in English,  Mona Lisa

Da Vinci took 5 year ++ to paint this picture and not many

knows that this painting was however still unfinished when he died...

he would then taken with him whenever he travels,

thus the deterioration of the paintings contributed to wear

and tear and the poplar wood he painted Mona Lisa

i had the opportunity to watch and admire Mona Lisa

the way Da Vinci painted 500 years ago and the

current Painting @ the Louvre, Paris, France.

with the current state of the art photography and

digital technique scientist are able to take several

original picture of the painting and aged the pain

through software and later to produce the 500 years old

painting as what Da Vinci intended color to paint.

"Pascal Cotte, French scientific engineer and photographer of fine art, 

invented a 240-million pixel camera to photograph the Mona Lisa in the Louvre"

i even had the opportunity to view the back of drawing ...

the poplar wood ... from behind .. there is a name ...

hand written by Da Vinci ... and some other goodies ....

as for Mona Lisa ...

it was really .. truly amazing ... the painting details is like

polishing diamonds, with much care and brush technique

that even Da Vinci learn and applied many new technique

over Mona Lisa over the 5 years plus duration ...

it is not because of the details .. it is because some

details you need special technique and at that

time ... Da Vinci has yet to get the idea and technique

thus the painting is still not finish and there are witness

that when he died, he was holding this painting of

Mona Lisa ....

 

 the infamous Last Supper picture ... 

it took Da Vinci 5 years ++ to complete and most of the time

he was not painting it ... however he was outside in the street

watching how human interact and how human express themselves

and when he got the idea, he will paint it for days .. at times without

food and water for days ....

above picture is not just an ordinary picture with Christ and

his deciple .. in fact only if ur an artist you then would know

what technique that he applied and how balance is all the

character and intentionally put Christ as the topic with the little enlarge

of him sitting in the middle of the table ...and the expression of his

deciples when he announce that one of them are going to betray him

the picture as if in a motion.. it would be about a 5milisecond after the

announcement  ...and  that's where Da Vinci took the image and

painted on the wall for 5 years .....

the actual painting now can be viewed at

Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, however the painting

has already suffering from damage  due to Da Vinci technique used 

500 years ago that it has catch mold and some color has fallen out.

 

theVitruvian Man ... drawn by Da Vinci, but idea

behind of the double image of a man is the key of measurement

by an architect named Vitruvius Pollio.

The drawing is traditionally named in honour of the architect.

For example ...

• a palm is the width of four fingers
• a foot is the width of four palms (12inches,1 feet)
• a cubit is the width of six palms
• a pace is four cubits
• a man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms)
• the length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height

Da Vinci .. self potrait ...

too bad ... if your interested like i'm ....

the Da Vinci The Genius exibition @ Singapore Science Centre

ends last Sunday 16th August. The exhebitor are Grande Exhibition

from Australia.

The exhibits are from Da Vinci's collection of arts and mechnanical

concepts replicas from around the world. In short, visiting this exhibitions

means you've watch the whole Da Vinci's collection of Science, Mathematician,

Engineer, Inventor, Anatomist, Sculptor, Botanist, Write, Musician, Painter and

Philosopher. 

I bet nobody except God is as genius as Leonardo da Vinci, don't u agree ?