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¿Te consideras afortunado o afurtanada?

Si tú eres un afortunado postor tendrás la oportunidad de conocer de cerca la "Mona Lisa".

¿Cómo es eso?

Así, como lo escuchas. Gracias a una nueva subasta del museo del Louvre en París.

¿Qué tipo de experiencia es esta subasta?

Es una de las experiencias únicas en la vida que pasan bajo el martillo como parte de la subasta, que comenzó el martes.

¿Qué tiene de original?

El ganador asistirá al examen anual de la "Mona Lisa" de Leonardo da Vinci, que es cuando una de las pinturas más famosas del mundo se saca de su estuche para su inspección, según un comunicado de prensa de la casa de subastas Christie.

¿y qué más?

Otras experiencias, que serán enumeradas por Christie's y el Hotel Drouot, incluyen un recorrido privado por el museo con Jean-Luc Martinez, presidente y director del Louvre; un recorrido nocturno con antorchas por el museo y un concierto privado en el Salón de las Cariátides.

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New images uncover 25 secrets about the Mona Lisa.

La Gioconda de Madrid.

La restauración de la Mona Lisa que posee el Museo del Prado desvela que es una copia contemporánea a la original y pudo ser realizada al mismo tiempo por uno de los discípulos de Leonardo da Vinci. 

La Gioconda de Madrid fue realizada por un alumno de la escuela de Leonardo a la vez que el artista italiano culminaba en el siglo XVI una de sus obras maestras, informó el museo.

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El arte y la restauración

La Virgen y el Niño con Santa
María

Los expertos están profundamente divididos sobre la restauración de una pintura de Leonardo da Vinci que algunos dicen que podría haber ido demasiado lejos. Se trata de la obra pictórica "La Virgen y el Niño con Santa Ana", si bien no goza del mismo estatus que el de la "Mona Lisa". Sin embargo, para el Museo del Louvre, es una obra de arte  muy atesorada.

Museos como el Louvre están bajo presión para atraer al público con espectáculos de gran éxito, a menudo incluyendo obras maestras cuyos colores son llamativos y alegre después de restauraciones a fondo. 


Ahora la batalla se está librando en la restauración de la pintura, que enfrenta a los museos y los expertos que defienden el proyecto en contra de otros que creen que la limpieza del lienzo de 500 años de edad, ha sido demasiado agresivo y que ya podría haber causado daños irreversibles.

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El Zoológico de Leonardo Da Vinci

Un artista afirma haber descifrado el zoológico de Leonardo Da Vinci en la Mona Lisa- un misterio de 500 años de antigüedad - tras descubrir los animales ocultos en el famoso retrato de la Gioconda. 

El Pintor aficionado al óleo y diseñador gráfico con sede en Nueva York, Ron Piccirillo, cree que los animales, incluyendo un león (arriba a la derecha), un mono (arriba a la izquierda) y un búfalo (abajo a la derecha) son visibles si uno coloca la Mona Lisa en forma horizontal.

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La banda de Picasso

"La película trata de la historia del robo de la Mona Lisa en 1911, un robo del que el célebre pintor Pablo Picasso fue sospechoso".


"El director de cine español Fernando Colomo rueda actualmente en Budapest "La banda de Picasso", comedia hispano-francesa con Pablo Picasso como protagonista, en la que la capital húngara sirve como decorado para recordar el París de 1911, anunciaron los productores.


El rodaje se inició a principios de noviembre y acabará el 17 de diciembre.


Colomo es conocido por obras como "Eso" (1997) y "Al sur de Granada" (2002)."

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Museun Louvre Burnt Down

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Guillaume Apollinaire

In Paris Guillaume Apollinaire mingled in the bohemian artist circles. Through his great verbal talent, both in speech and in writing, he soon became a leading character there. Among his closest friends were Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, André Billy, Eric Satie, and others. He became violently infatuated with his female fellow artists, especially with Marie Laurencin, to whom he dedicated a great part of his poetical production. Throughout his lifetime, his strongest bonds, however, were those to his mother. 


When Apollinaire's office went bankrupt and he became unemployed, he started to publish pornographic books, together with a former school mate from Nice. Thus he accumulated enough money to make possible his later literary activities in magazines and publication of poetry collections.



The Mona Lisa painting now hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting’s increasing fame was further emphasized when it was stolen on August 21, 1911. The next day, painter Louis Béroud discovered the four iron pegs where the painting should have been and initially thought it had been taken for promotional photographs. French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be “burnt down,” came under suspicion. On September 7, 1911, he was arrested and put in jail. Apollinaire tried to implicate his friend Pablo Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated.


The story gets more interesting, as the painting was thought to have been lost forever. It took two years to find the lost painting. Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen it and hid in a broom closet until after hours. He kept it in his apartment for two years before selling it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. He was hailed as a patriot for returning the Italian painting and only served six months in jail.

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El Robo de Arte más Famoso

El 21 de agosto de 1911 un escalofrío atravesó el alma del pintor Louis Béroud, que llegaba a la sala Carré del museo del Louvre para admirar la 'Mona Lisa'. El emblema del museo, su pieza más valiosa y apreciada, 'La Gioconda', se había esfumado.
      
Estamos ante "el mayor escándalo que el mundo cultivado haya conocido", resume el ensayista francés Jérôme Coignard, autor de 'Una mujer desaparece' (Une femme desaparaît', aun inédito en español) en el que reconstruye la peripecia de un robo perfecto que conmocionó al mundo y al que ha dedicado doce años de investigación.
Un siglo después son muchas las preguntas sin respuestas sobre un suceso que salpicó al mismísimo Picasso y su amigo Guillaume Apollinaire. Pintor y poeta fueron detenidos e interrogados un mes después del latrocinio como presuntos autores. Apollinaire había propuesto quemar el Louvre y Picasso tenía antecedentes por la compra arte robado.


El hurto la de la 'Mona Lisa' fue una noticia global de la que se hicieron eco los diarios de los cinco continentes desde de que saltó a las portadas de todos los diario franceses del 22 de agosto. Corrieron ríos de tinta tratando de dilucidar si era la venganza de un justiciero nacionalista italiano, el desafío de una banda de timadores, el reto de alguien dispuesto a pedir un rescate o la obra de un desequilibrado dispuesto a acabar con la pintura más famosa de la historia. Se llegó a apuntar que el robo se había organizado desde el propio gobierno francés para lanzar una cortina de humo ante una desastrosa situación política o que los propios responsables del Louvre tratando de ocultar una fatal restauración.


La Gioconda' era la joya de Louvre desde que Napoleón se viera obligado a entregarlo cuando tomó el camino del destierro hacia la isla de Santa Elena. Hasta entonces el emperador había disfrutado de la pintura en su dormitorio, como antes lo había hecho el monarca Luis XIV. La revolución lo condujo al Louvre en 1793.
Leonardo Da Vinci nunca se deshizo de de su tabla, que retocó hasta su últimos días. Con ella viajó desde Florencia a la corte de Francisco I, en Fontainebleau. Fue el monarca francés quien la adquirió por 4.000 coronas de oro, una exorbitante cantidad el equivalente a doce toneladas de plata, no sabemos si antes o después de la muerte de Leonardo.
Un siglo después del robo del siglo, Italia ha lanzado una campaña para que regrese a Florencia el supuesto retrato de Lisa Gherardini de Giocondo. Un equipo de arqueólogos busca sus restos en el convento florentino de Santa Úrsula en el que presuntamente estar enterrada para obtener muestras de su ADN. Quieren compararlos con el de los hijos de Gherardini cuyas fosas estas perfectamente localizadas. Aspira a dar con el cráneo de la bella florentina y poder compararlo con el retrato para confirmar o descartar definitivamente que se trata de la esposa de Francesco Barlotolomeo del Giocondo.

25 Uncover Secrets about the Mona Lisa

 

New images uncover 25 secrets about the Mona Lisa, including proof that Leonardo da Vinci gave her eyebrows, solving a long-held mystery.

The images are part of an exhibition, "Mona Lisa Secrets Revealed," which features new research by French engineer Pascal Cotte and debuts in the United States at the Metreon Center in San Francisco, where it will remain through the end of this year. The Mona Lisa showcase is part of a larger exhibition called "Da Vinci: An Exhibition of Genius."

Cotte, founder of Lumiere Technology, scanned the painting with a 240-megapixel Multi-spectral Imaging Camera he invented, which uses 13 wavelengths from ultraviolet light to infrared. The resulting images peel away centuries of varnish and other alterations, shedding light on how the artist brought the painted figure to life and how she appeared to da Vinci and his contemporaries. 

"The face of Mona Lisa appears slightly wider and the smile is different and the eyes are different," Cotte said. "The smile is more accentuated I would say."

Mona Lisa mysteries

A zoomed-in image of Mona Lisa's left eye revealed a single brush stroke in the eyebrow region, Cotte said.

"I am an engineer and scientist, so for me all has to be logical. It was not logical that Mona Lisa does not have any eyebrows or eyelashes," Cotte told LiveScience. "I discovered one hair of the eyebrow."

Another conundrum had been the position of the subject's right arm, which lies across her stomach. This was the first time, Cotte said, that a painter had rendered a subject's arm and wrist in such a position. While other artists had never understood da Vinci's reasoning, they copied it nonetheless.

Cotte discovered the pigment just behind the right wrist matched up perfectly with that of the painted cover that drapes across Mona Lisa's knee. So it did make sense: The forearm and wrist held up one side of a blanket.

"The wrist of the right hand is up high on the stomach. But if you look deeply in the infrared you understand that she holds a cover with her wrist," Cotte said.

Behind a painting

The infrared images also revealed da Vinci's preparatory drawings that lie behind layers of varnish and paint, showing that the Renaissance man was also human.

"If you look at the left hand you see the first position of the finger, and he changed his mind for another position," Cotte said. "Even Leonardo da Vinci had hesitation."

Other revelations include:

• Lace on Mona Lisa's dress
• The transparency of the veil shows da Vinci first painted a landscape and then used transparency techniques to paint the veil atop it.
• A change in the position of the left index and middle finger.
• The elbow was repaired from damage due to a rock thrown at the painting in 1956.
• The blanket covering Mona Lisa's knees also covers her stomach.
• The left finger was not completely finished.
• A blotch mark on the corner of the eye and chin are varnish accidents, countering claims that Mona Lisa was sick.
• And the Mona Lisa was painted on uncut poplar board, contrary to speculations.

In the larger picture, Cotte said when he stands back and looks up at the enlarged infrared image of Mona Lisa, her beauty and mystique are apparent.

"If you are in front of this huge enlargement of Mona Lisa, you understand instantly why Mona Lisa is so famous," Cotte said. He added, it's something you have to see with your own eyes.

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The True Mona Lisa

A team of art historians, armed with the latest technical gadgetry, descend on a dilapidated convent in Florence on Wednesday. They're hoping to finally solve the mystery.


Italian art historians believe the woman who modeled for Leonardo da Vinci's painting back in the sixteenth century was the wife of a nobleman, Lisa Gherardini.

 But there is no definitive proof.

Scientist now plan to find the remains of Gherardini, reconstruct her face and prove she was the woman in one of the world's most famous paintings.
 

The search begins in the Saint Orsola convent, a structure in central Firenze. It's now almost reduced to ruins.

Little is visible of the small church that's believed to be where Gherardini is buried.

But using the latest in ground-penetrating radar equipment, scientists are scanning the floor in the church to pinpoint areas where they may start digging.

[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:

"Here Gherardini spent the last few years of her life because she had two sons and two daughters and her daughters were nuns. One of these nuns looked after her in the last moments of her life and she was buried here."

But more scientific investigation would be required to confirm whether they have the right woman.

[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:

"Many Florentine woman would have died at the age of 63 but we know that one of these women was buried here. To be sure we have to find the DNA in her bones, once we have found that we compare it with the DNA of her children who are buried at the Santissima Annunziata convent."

The radar equipment shows up areas under the flooring that could be where the bodies are buried.

 [Silvano Vinceti, President, Committee for Historic and Cultural Heritage]:

"We have a document confirming the burial of Gherardini in 1542 here in the convent. We have documents, never seen before from the nuns who wrote of the burial. In the 16th century, four people were buried here in this small church of Saint Orsola where we are searching for Gherardini. This machinery will give us an idea to a depth of 3 meters (9.8 ft.) what is underneath the floor and will give us a roadmap of where we can start digging afterwards." 

 It's not clear how long the project will need before coming to any conclusion.

 Da Vinci is believed to have finished the painting in 1519 just before his death.

 It is currently displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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