Mona Lisa News
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Johannes Vermeer’s lovely “Girl With a Pearl Earring” -- gray-blue eyes, lips slightly parted, wearing a blue-and-yellow turban -- looks over her left shoulder at the viewer with an innocent gaze.
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Commissioned along with Leonardo da Vinci in 1504 to paint a battle scene on the wall of the Great Council Hall in Florence, Michelangelo jumped at the chance.
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Suddenly, it seems to be raining Mona Lisas.
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Though he has been dead for almost 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) continues to surprise.
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Move aside Mona Lisa. More Chinese visitors are headed to Paris and they are picking luxury stores such as Galeries Lafayette over visits to the Louvre.
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The search for a new chief of the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, may include non-French candidates for the first time in the institution’s more than 200-year history.
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Swimming with barking sea lions in the Sea of Cortez felt unreal.
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For a man born 560 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci made a great deal of news in 2012.
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They discovered another Mona Lisa at the Prado in Madrid, just hanging about in the stock room. “What do you think that is?” asked some Spanish curator. “Let’s clean it and see. Caramba. It’s another Mona Lisa,” painted contemporaneously by Leonardo da Vinci’s favored pupil, perhaps his significant other.
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Leonardo da Vinci is a gold mine.
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