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...Smith's silly, prim smile made her Chicago's Mona Lisa. Headline: WHAT OF MRS. SMITH'S STRANGE SMILE? with pictures. "Am I," she asked newshawks, "still front page...
Four centuries of bafflement over the expression Leonardo da Vinci put on a face in a picture the world has come to know as the Mona Lisa would be ended by a few facts about the fat-cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites...
...inviting him to Mantua. She may have asked her brother, Lucrezia's husband, to ask Cesare to excuse Leonardo. Until 1506 Leonardo worked in Florence, only no miles from Mantua. At any rate, sometime between 1499 and 1506, between his meeting with Isabella and his departure from Florence, Mona Lisa is supposed to have been painted. Was it of Lisa del Giocondo in Naples or of Isabella d'Este in Mantua...
...fact, does not mention a Leonardo portrait of Lisa. On the other hand, he found a profile study of Isabella by Leonardo in Vienna's Imperial Museum and another in Leonardo's signet ring in the royal archives in Mantua. His difficulty was that the Mona Lisa is nearly full-face, but he thought he saw similarities. Probing on, he found a Leonardo statue in Berlin whose profile strongly resembles the known Isabella profiles. Seen full-face, this statue markedly resembles the Mona Lisa. Dr. Stites thought he had solved his problem...
...become fat like the volumes of van Marle. You will find Titian's "Charles V," and you will rejoice if you like that portrait; you will also find Botticelli's "Venus," Raphael's "Julius II," and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist conscience," as Max Beerbohm calls it "which does make cowards...