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Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th Century work the Mona Lisa is probably the most recognisable piece of art in the world. Well, maybe second to maybe The Scream, The Girl With The Pearl Earring or that sticker of the kid peeing on football shirts you see in the back window of people’s cars. What is it that’s so beguiling about this particular portrait? What made it “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”? Why this painting above all others, let alone all others in the impressive and sizeable oeuvre of literal renaissance man da Vinci?
Well, as much as it pains us to admit it, we think Dan Brown might have been onto something. The Da Vinci Code might be a bit of a hacky, pulpy thriller that has made way...
Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th Century work the Mona Lisa is probably the most recognisable piece of art in the world. Well, maybe second to maybe The Scream, The Girl With The Pearl Earring or that sticker of the kid peeing on football shirts you see in the back window of people’s cars. What is it that’s so beguiling about this particular portrait? What made it “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”? Why this painting above all others, let alone all others in the impressive and sizeable oeuvre of literal renaissance man da Vinci?
Well, as much as it pains us to admit it, we think Dan Brown might have been onto something. The Da Vinci Code might be a bit of a hacky, pulpy thriller that has made way...
- 8/19/2014
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
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