LISA GHERDININI DE GOICONDA
PAINTING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
MONALISA
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DESCRIPTION OF MONALISA
A woman's portrait, Monalisa Gioconda. She's sitting
upright with the one hand above the other one.
Monalisa is slightly smiling and her eyes are directed
to the painter, making straightly looking at whoever
will look at the portrait. She's wearing a black veil and
a black dress. Behind Monalisa is a landscape of
mountains and road paths. But Monalisa appear at
the painting without eyebrows.

ANALYSIS
Leonardo Da Vinci made it hazy and slightly blurred
effect of Monalisa painting. Coated in carefully blended
colour and subtle gradations. The Monalisa is made up
of approximately twenty light layers of paint, some are
extremely thin. As a result of this work, the surface of the
painting shows absolutely no trace of brush strokes. And
due to the age of the portrait Monalisa’s eyebrows have
faded over the centuries.

Monalisa represent women's image as sophisticated yet classy and
composed. It made us got into an idea that it shows how should the
women would act and look like in the past. But the three-quarter view,
in which Monalisa gaze follow the viewer and one side smile could
also mean that despite being refrain because she's a woman, she
shouldn't be underestimated. It shows like she have something in her
mind, could pull off to prove herself and women shouldn't belittled.
INTERPRETATIO
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The Monalisa painting is very interesting. I like the colors, and
Leonardo Da Vinci has done a good job of portraying the
Monalisa in the painting. We also got amazed by the three-
quarter view and the realism of this painting makes it special
because it allows us to see inside the mind of the subject,
Monalisa.
However, there could be some improvements made to this
painting. For example, Leonardo Da Vinci could have used more
detail in her clothing or hair style. Another thing we noticed was
that the hand above the other one is quite different and not in
good position in the viewers perspective resulting to look like it's
fractured. And the eyebrows, people believe that the eyebrows
have faded over the centuries. The artist should have been more
careful to face details. It would have given some depth to the
entire piece and helped us see where we were looking at in
relation to each other. • • • JUDGEMENT