New Mona Lisa Painting Found

In 1962 blaker sold it to the american collector henry.

New mona lisa painting found. To the untrained eye this second version or new mona lisa looks strikingly similar to the world famous painting that hangs in the louvre. Known to some as the earlier mona lisa the painting has spent much of the past five decades hidden in a swiss bank vault. He also said the drawing was done in parallel with the mona lisa which was painted around 1503 at the end of leonardos life and that it was very likely in preparation for an oil painting. He and two other workers had taken the portrait from the wall hid with it in a closet overnight and ran off with it in the morning.

Lost painting by leonardo da vinci may be found in florence cotte told the bbc that he believes his findings challenge the widely accepted theory that the mona lisa is a painting of real life 16th century italian woman lisa gheradini who was the wife of a florentine silk merchant. The mona lisas twin painting discovered conservators at madrids museo del prado recently discovered that a replica of the mona lisa might have been painted by one of leonardo da vincis pupils. Blaker then moved the painting to his studio in isleworth england giving it its iconic name. Police found the portrait stashed in the false bottom of a trunk belonging to vincenzo peruggia an italian immigrant who had briefly worked at the louvre fitting glass on a selection of paintings including the mona lisa.

Acquired by a secretive consortium in 2008 the painting has since been. The isleworth mona lisa was first discovered in 1914 by the art collector hugh blaker who found it in the home of an english nobleman. The work is framed by two columns which do not appear in the original work but are featured in a genuine study for the painting the daily mail reports. The mona lisa m o n e l i s e.

La joconde la kd is a half length portrait painting by the italian artist leonardo da vinciit is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the italian renaissance and has been described as the best known the most visited the most written about the most. An image of a portrait underneath the mona lisa has been found beneath the existing painting using reflective light technology according to a french scientist.