Monday, 13 May 2024

If You Were Asked To Name A Famous Painting,

I guess this would be it, 


the Mona Lisa, I took this photograph of it when we visited Paris with Steve and Kai in June 2022, well here are 10 things abut the painting that you may or may not know about the painting, and here is one more, it is going to be moved! “We’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but this time everyone is in agreement,” Vincent Delieuvin, the Louvre’s chief curator of 16th-century Italian painting told the French newspaper Le Figaro. “It’s a large room, and the Mona Lisa is at the back, behind its security glass, so at first glance it looks like a postage stamp,” Delieuvin said that the impact of social media and mass tourism demands a greater effort, as they have multiplied the artwork’s celebrity far beyond anything imagined after its theft in 1911, a new entrance and room in a underground chamber will be constructed, “The mood in the museum is now ripe,” des Cars said. “We have to embrace the painting’s status as a global icon, which is beyond our control.” The budget for the Louvre’s overhaul is estimated at €500 million, according to Le Figaro, the full article is at  ART News.com.


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