Super User *Hootie Posted January 24, 2016 Super User Posted January 24, 2016 Does anybody "really" believe that "Mona Lisa" is beautiful? Hootie 1 Quote
Super User bowhunter63 Posted January 24, 2016 Super User Posted January 24, 2016 No not at all. 1 Quote
Buckeye Ron Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 Not hardly. Not someone I'd give a second look at. Art,maybe,but that's about it. Must be where "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"comes into play,eh? 1 Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted January 24, 2016 Super User Posted January 24, 2016 1 hour ago, *Hootie said: Does anybody "really" believe that "Mona Lisa" is beautiful? Hootie Only if I owned her. 3 Quote
Super User fishinfiend Posted January 24, 2016 Super User Posted January 24, 2016 nope hideous 1 Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 25, 2016 Super User Posted January 25, 2016 If Mona Lisa was beautiful, then Da Vinci was a lousy artist. Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted January 25, 2016 Super User Posted January 25, 2016 Da Vinci redefined the rules of contemporary art with the Mona Lisa. But Mona Lisa is lowkey ugly lol Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 25, 2016 Super User Posted January 25, 2016 Maybe Da Vinci's eyesight was fading when he painted Mona. Quote
fisherrw Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 1 hour ago, fishinfiend said: nope hideous x2 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted January 25, 2016 Super User Posted January 25, 2016 I mean for a European.... Quote
lecisnith Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 If you consider that most women in the 1500s looked somewhere between Rosie O'Donnell and Steve Buscemi, relatively, Mona was a knockout. 2 Quote
FloridaFishinFool Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 Beautiful? Not if she was a he! Mona Geezer: Was da Vinci's young male apprentice the model for that famous enigmatic smile? By PAUL BENTLEY FOR THE DAILY MAIL UPDATED: 03:05 EST, 15 February 2011 Art lovers have for centuries debated the reason for her enigmatic smile. Now it appears Mona Lisa may have been hiding a remarkable secret – she was a he. An art historian claims the model in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece was one of his male muses, a young man called Gian Giacomo Caprotti, whose nose and mouth bear striking similarities to those of Mona Lisa. Caprotti, who was also known as Salai, worked as an apprentice with the artist for more than two decades from 1490 and they were rumoured to have been lovers. Some experts had already suggested Leonardo could have based his masterpiece on a self portrait. But Silvano Vinceti, a researcher who has been analysing the painting using state-of-the-art high-magnification techniques, also claims to have found the letter ‘S’ in the model’s eyes, which may be a reference to Salai. Several of Leonardo’s works, including St John the Baptist and a drawing called Angel Incarnate, are said to have been based on Salai. Mr Vinceti, president of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, said these paintings depict a slender, effeminate young man with long auburn curls and almost identical facial features to the Mona Lisa. ‘Salai was a favourite model for Leonardo,’ he said. ‘Leonardo certainly inserted characteristics of Salai in the last version of the Mona Lisa.’ Most experts believe the model for the Mona Lisa, which hangs at the Louvre in Paris, was Lisa Gherardini, the 24-year-old wife of a rich Florentine silk merchant. They say Leonardo started painting her in 1503. But Mr Vinceti claims he may have started in the late 1490s in Milan, coinciding with the time he built up a relationship with Salai. His claims have caused a stir in the art world, with many dismissing the idea that Mona Lisa was a man. Da Vinci expert Pietro Marani said the theory was ‘groundless’. The art professor at Milan’s Politecnico university said: ‘All Leonardo subjects look like each other because he represents an abstract ideal of beauty. They all have this dual characteristic of masculine and feminine. ‘The work began as the portrait of Lisa Gherardini, but over the years it slowly turned into something else; an idealised portrait, not a specific one. ‘That’s also why you have this fascinating face that transcends time and transcends a specific person, and why all these theories keep piling up.’ Quote
FloridaFishinFool Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 Just now, lo n slo said: Olive Oyl was hotter At least she was a she! (I hope!) 1 Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted January 25, 2016 Super User Posted January 25, 2016 Not by today's standards, and probably not back in Da Vinci's time either. Quote
GetJigginWithIt Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 How beers are factored into the original question? Quote
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