Mona Lisa

 

     

                                                               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.