Two self-styled ‘landscape
hunters’ claim to have located the countryside behind the Mona Lisa.
The research is to be published in Italy next month in a book titled Code P by Olivia Nesci, a geomorphologist at Italy’s Urbino university, and an artist-photographer named Rosetta Borchia.
The two are co-authors of a 2008 study on the landscapes used in paintings of Early Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.
“On one of our excursions to study Piero della Francesca, we saw a patch of landscape which reminded us of La Gioconda [Mona Lisa]. There was a confluence of rivers. It seemed to be the one in the painting, so we started out study,” Ms Nesci told The Times yesterday. “We are firmly convinced that this is the landscape.”
Art historians have long debated whether Leonardo da Vinci based his masterpiece on an actual landscape or simply painted backgrounds from his imagination.
In his biography of the archetypal Renaissance man, art historian Kenneth Clark wrote: “From his earliest work,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. Leonardo had felt that the only possible background to a picture was a range of fantastic mountain peaks.”
Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia insist, however, that the rivers, lakes and mountains are actually in the Montefeltro area of northeast Italy.
They identify the confluence of the two rivers as the joining of the Senatello and Marecchia rivers in the former Duchy of Urbino, a part of Italy known as Montefeltro that spans the borders of Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and the Marche. They believe the background is a compression of the landscape seen from two separate vantage points.
The pair divided the background of the Mona Lisa into six parts and identified the elements in each, they say.
“The lake is not there any more. Instead there is now a large depression filled with landslides,” Ms Nesci said. “The bridge is not there any more, because it was destroyed, but we know there was one there.”
“The mountain by her head is called Monte Aquilone. The hills beside the road are Sassi Simone and Sassi Simoncello,” she said.
Leonardo knew the area well because he visited while inspecting fortifications for Cesare Borgia in 1502. The artist may also have accompanied Pope Leo X and the pontiff’s brother Giuliano de’ Medici there on a trip in 1516 from Rome to Bologna.
Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia are not the first researchers to claim to have found the landscape in the Mona Lisa.
One theory, presented by a local teacher named Carlo Starnazzi in 1995, is that the sketchy bridge near the Mona Lisa’s left shoulder is the ancient seven-arched Ponte a Buriano over the Arno outside Arezzo.
But Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia’s theory fits snugly with new research on the identity of the mysterious woman in the painting.
Since Giorgio Vasari biography of Leonardo in 1550, it has been thought that the sitter was Madonna Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a rich silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo — which is why the painting is also known in Italy as “La Gioconda.”
A margin note by a Florentine official on a 1503 manuscript discovered at the University of Heidelberg in 2005 says the painter was working on a portrait of Giocondo’s wife. The title Mona Lisa derives from a contraction of the Italian “Ma donna,” or “My Lady.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.” Leonardo began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 but only finished it in 1519,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles.Find detailed product information for howo spareparts and other products. shortly before his death.
Roberto Zapperi, a Vatican archivist, claimed in a book last year, however, that the Mona Lisa is really Pacifica Brandani, a married noblewoman who was the mistress of Giuliano de’ Medici when he was exiled in the Duchy of Urbino.
Brandani, the books says, died soon after giving birth to her lover’s illegitimate son and Giuliano de’ Medici commissioned the portrait for the child.
Ms Nesci said she was not aware of Mr Zapperi’s work when she identified the landscape, but says it supports her view. She points out that it would make no sense for Leonardo to use the Ponte a Buriano in Arezzo as the background for a Florentine woman such as Gherardini.
Martin Kemp,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University and an eminent Leonardo scholar, is sceptical of any efforts to identify the background of the Mona Lisa.
“The way that Leonardo went about making paintings was that he was not in the business of making portraits of specific bits of countryside,” Mr Kemp said.
In 1860 he sold the store to his brother and planned a trip to England and continental Europe to buy more books. He took the Butterfield Overland Stage to New York, but during the trip the stagecoach crashed. One passenger was killed and Muggeridge badly injured. He was in a coma for nine days and obviously had a significant brain injury, with symptoms including double vision, seizures, and loss of his senses of taste and smell for months after the accident.
Although it wasn’t recognized at the time, the description of his symptoms would today be considered to indicate injury to the frontal cortex of the brain. This might have led to some of the poor emotional control and eccentric behavior Muybridge exhibited throughout his later life.
He completed his recovery back in England and decided to stay there for a bit, since the American Civil War had broken out at the time. He apparently learned -- or began practicing -- photography during his time in England, since he is known to have exhibited photographs at the Great London Exhibition of 1862. He was busy in other ways, too, obtaining patents for a new type of washing machine and a printing plate. He apparently made quite a bit of money, then lost it all in the English banking crisis of 1865.
The research is to be published in Italy next month in a book titled Code P by Olivia Nesci, a geomorphologist at Italy’s Urbino university, and an artist-photographer named Rosetta Borchia.
The two are co-authors of a 2008 study on the landscapes used in paintings of Early Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.
“On one of our excursions to study Piero della Francesca, we saw a patch of landscape which reminded us of La Gioconda [Mona Lisa]. There was a confluence of rivers. It seemed to be the one in the painting, so we started out study,” Ms Nesci told The Times yesterday. “We are firmly convinced that this is the landscape.”
Art historians have long debated whether Leonardo da Vinci based his masterpiece on an actual landscape or simply painted backgrounds from his imagination.
In his biography of the archetypal Renaissance man, art historian Kenneth Clark wrote: “From his earliest work,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. Leonardo had felt that the only possible background to a picture was a range of fantastic mountain peaks.”
Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia insist, however, that the rivers, lakes and mountains are actually in the Montefeltro area of northeast Italy.
They identify the confluence of the two rivers as the joining of the Senatello and Marecchia rivers in the former Duchy of Urbino, a part of Italy known as Montefeltro that spans the borders of Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and the Marche. They believe the background is a compression of the landscape seen from two separate vantage points.
The pair divided the background of the Mona Lisa into six parts and identified the elements in each, they say.
“The lake is not there any more. Instead there is now a large depression filled with landslides,” Ms Nesci said. “The bridge is not there any more, because it was destroyed, but we know there was one there.”
“The mountain by her head is called Monte Aquilone. The hills beside the road are Sassi Simone and Sassi Simoncello,” she said.
Leonardo knew the area well because he visited while inspecting fortifications for Cesare Borgia in 1502. The artist may also have accompanied Pope Leo X and the pontiff’s brother Giuliano de’ Medici there on a trip in 1516 from Rome to Bologna.
Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia are not the first researchers to claim to have found the landscape in the Mona Lisa.
One theory, presented by a local teacher named Carlo Starnazzi in 1995, is that the sketchy bridge near the Mona Lisa’s left shoulder is the ancient seven-arched Ponte a Buriano over the Arno outside Arezzo.
But Ms Nesci and Ms Borchia’s theory fits snugly with new research on the identity of the mysterious woman in the painting.
Since Giorgio Vasari biography of Leonardo in 1550, it has been thought that the sitter was Madonna Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a rich silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo — which is why the painting is also known in Italy as “La Gioconda.”
A margin note by a Florentine official on a 1503 manuscript discovered at the University of Heidelberg in 2005 says the painter was working on a portrait of Giocondo’s wife. The title Mona Lisa derives from a contraction of the Italian “Ma donna,” or “My Lady.The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.” Leonardo began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 but only finished it in 1519,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles.Find detailed product information for howo spareparts and other products. shortly before his death.
Roberto Zapperi, a Vatican archivist, claimed in a book last year, however, that the Mona Lisa is really Pacifica Brandani, a married noblewoman who was the mistress of Giuliano de’ Medici when he was exiled in the Duchy of Urbino.
Brandani, the books says, died soon after giving birth to her lover’s illegitimate son and Giuliano de’ Medici commissioned the portrait for the child.
Ms Nesci said she was not aware of Mr Zapperi’s work when she identified the landscape, but says it supports her view. She points out that it would make no sense for Leonardo to use the Ponte a Buriano in Arezzo as the background for a Florentine woman such as Gherardini.
Martin Kemp,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University and an eminent Leonardo scholar, is sceptical of any efforts to identify the background of the Mona Lisa.
“The way that Leonardo went about making paintings was that he was not in the business of making portraits of specific bits of countryside,” Mr Kemp said.
In 1860 he sold the store to his brother and planned a trip to England and continental Europe to buy more books. He took the Butterfield Overland Stage to New York, but during the trip the stagecoach crashed. One passenger was killed and Muggeridge badly injured. He was in a coma for nine days and obviously had a significant brain injury, with symptoms including double vision, seizures, and loss of his senses of taste and smell for months after the accident.
Although it wasn’t recognized at the time, the description of his symptoms would today be considered to indicate injury to the frontal cortex of the brain. This might have led to some of the poor emotional control and eccentric behavior Muybridge exhibited throughout his later life.
He completed his recovery back in England and decided to stay there for a bit, since the American Civil War had broken out at the time. He apparently learned -- or began practicing -- photography during his time in England, since he is known to have exhibited photographs at the Great London Exhibition of 1862. He was busy in other ways, too, obtaining patents for a new type of washing machine and a printing plate. He apparently made quite a bit of money, then lost it all in the English banking crisis of 1865.
没有评论:
发表评论