London
Café : Mona Lisa
Mike, James
and Anna waiting in the café for Robin. Today London was too chilled. The
snowfall started and at the same time Robin entered in the café.
Robin: Hi
guys , sorry for late bcoz of snowfall I am not able to came at time.
Mike: It’s
ok dear. You are late that means there must be some exciting news you are
covered.
Robin: Ya of
Couse that’s my duty right. The news is about world’s greatest and mysterious
painting MONA LISA which was created by famous painter Da Vinchi.
Anna: Ya,
everyone one knows that. But what is the mystery in that dear?
James: Dear
tell us everything you know about the painting
Robin: Ya
of course. Know listen carefully
The latest study about Mona Lisa says that
the women in painting was Italian noble women
“ Lisa
Gherardini” the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It is painted in oil on white
Lombardy poplar panel. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 –
1506. It was acquired by king Francis 1 of France and now the property of the
French Republic. It has been permanent display at Louvre in Paris since 1797.
James:
Robin I know it’s wrong to value the fine art in currency, but this painting
must be too expensive, right?
Robin : Ya,
in the year 1962 the cost of painting was US$100 million. It holds the Guinnes
World Record for the highest known painting.
You know
what is the meaning of name Mona Lisa?
James : No
dear, tell us if you know ?
Robin: Yes,
the meaning of name Mona Lisa is My Lady. As of now so many researchers note
down their observations regarding the painting. Research in 2003, by Prof
Margaret Living stone of Harvard University said that moralist’s smile
disappears when observed with direct vision. And that’s why the smile of Mona
Lisa was too mysterious. Da Vinci never completed this painting. Actually the
painting you saw was incomplete.
Anna: But
Robin there is nothing incomplete in this painting?
Robin:
Don’t know but Da Vinci said that Mona Lisa was never completed.
You know Napoleon
Bonaparte loved this painting so much and therefore he built this painting in
his bedroom. There was one lover of Mona Lisa , who loved her at that limit
that he thrown the stone on the painting. In 1911, the painting was stolen. The
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire came under the suspicion and was arrested and
imprisoned. In this case his friend and great artist Pablo Picasso also
questioning. Both were later exonerated. The real culprit was Louvre’s employee
Vincenzo Peruggia who had helped construct the paintings glass case. He carried
out the theft by entering the building during regular hours , hiding in a broom
closet and walking out with the painting hidden under his coat after the museum
had close. After having kept the Mona Lisa in his apartment for two years ,
Peruggia grew impatient and was caught when he attempted to sell it to Giovanni
Poggi ,director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence. Peruggia served six months
in prison for the crime . Decker published this account of theft in 1932.
James : Ya,
but one thing is clear that everyone loves Mona Lisa . Someone who loves her as
a lover or someone loves her for money.
Anna : Wow
darling , it’s a cool information about worlds most loveable painting.
Mike : Ya
its true. But I want to spend my evening not with painting but with my real
life Monalisa.
Mike and
Robin kissed each other. And four of them enjoying there beautiful London
evening in eating and chitchat.
