The true story of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece

2024-01-31T15:19:13.069Z

Highlights: The true story of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. A portrait which was to adorn the main room of the home of a great Italian family, the Giocondo, who commissioned the painting, but which the painter never gave them. Who was Monna Lisa, the model for the MonA Lisa? Why is his smile fascinating? Under what conditions did Leonardo da Vidci create the most famous painting in the world? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Vincent Delieuvin, art historian, chief curator in charge of 16th century Italian painting at the Louvre Museum.

Stéphane Bern recounts the genesis of the most famous painting in the world, and the most visited too, on which a certain Lisa Gherardini is represented, the Madonna Lisa, Monna Lisa for short. A portrait which was to adorn the main room of the home of a great Italian family, the Giocondo, who commissioned the painting, but which the painter never gave them... Or the true story of the Mona Lisa, the head of work of Leonardo da Vinci... Who was Monna Lisa, the model for the Mona Lisa? Why is his smile fascinating? Under what conditions did Leonardo da Vinci create the most famous painting in the world? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Vincent Delieuvin, art historian, chief curator in charge of 16th century Italian painting at the Louvre Museum.