Another Mona Lisa?
Today, in the Louvre, after being imprisoned in a Swiss Vault for over 40 years, what is believed to be an earlier version of the Mona Lisa was unveiled.
The new Mona Lisa, dubbed the Isleworth Mona Lisa, is believed to be a painting by Leonardo da Vinci done a decade before the original Mona Lisa. A Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation claimed that it had compiled evidence that Leonardo indeed painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa in which the young maiden is flanked by two columns.
Posted on September 28, 2012, in On This Day in Art History. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.
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