The Forgery Show: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa in Mount Shasta, an annual forgery show in California.
The Forgery Show Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
Grand Opening: April 1, 5-7 pm at The Gallery in Mount Shasta
The Exhibit ends April 14, 2013
The Gallery: 201 N. Mount Shasta Blvd, Mount Shasta, California
More about Mona Lisa according to Wikipedia:
The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo]) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at theMus e du Louvre in Paris. The ambiguity of the subject’s expression, frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.
