The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa began life in an orthodox manner, as a commissioned portrait of a bourgeois woman. From there, as confirmed by the technical examinations, it evolved into a “universal picture” embodying Leonardo’s science of art - optics, geology, anatomy, psychology, and also expressing the notion of the “beloved lady” as evoked in poetry from Dante onwards. We will explore the origin, details, and universal reaction to this historic work.
Martin Kemp

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on my 4th hour of watching his lectures, interviews.....awesome speaker and lover of all things Leonardo

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Stunning artwork! Historical and artistic importance indeed!
You're lucky to have it.
Are you planning to exhibit it in public ?

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Excellent!

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This answered one of my questions right away in the first two minutes! Aristrocacy BUT poor one, her dad had little money. That explain to me why there are no other paintings of Lisa known to us beside the Joconde/Mona Lisa(s).

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Wonderful lecture, thank you.

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"Mona Lisa" is an anagram for "Mon Salai" (Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno) 🧐

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Stunning artwork! Historical and artistic importance indeed!
You're lucky to have it.
Are you planning to exhibit it in public?❤

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We will t.n

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📚 “Path of Illumination”
Neither space nor time is sufficient to describe the brilliant achievements of the Ionian school of natural science. People think that once freed from their chains with such enlightenment, human beings no longer deviate from the path of critical reason shown by this enlightenment. Unfortunately, the reality is the opposite.
In the 5th century BC, Socrates in Athens and Pythagoras and Parmenides in Southern Italy, called “Great Hellas,” rebelled against the inevitable results of Ionian natural science. In particular, they were frightened by the Ionians' thesis that precise knowledge was impossible and that every knowledge was open to improvement at any moment. They were after “accurate, indisputable, correct information.” Pythagoras taught that precision in numbers was a guarantee of the accuracy of knowledge. However, the discovery of irrational numbers such as the square root of 2 caused great embarrassment in the school of Pythagoras, which was organized as a religious sect, and it was decided to keep this discovery a secret. It is said that poor Hippasus, who leaked this secret out of the sect, was drowned in the sea by other sect members.
Parmenides said that his words got their power from the Goddess Dike, while Socrates taught that the immortal soul would find God, and that the good man was the man who most resembled God. Heraclitus from the Ionians, on the other hand, described Pythagoras as a charlatan.
The teaching of Socrates is the most misunderstood system of thought in the entire history of philosophy. Socrates' Defense and Euthyphro are actually a method used to impose certain moral standards on the individual. The great philosopher Bertrand Russell described Socrates' stance as “the greatest betrayal of truth.”
Indeed, Plato, the student of Socrates, established the first totalitarian state philosophy in Europe, and his student Aristotle placed an indisputable passion for truth in scientific thought. Later, Christianity came to Europe, and throughout the Middle Ages the people of Europe were condemned to the deepest ignorance and the most terrible tortures.
It took a thousand years for Europe to wake up from this terrible nightmare. The infiltration of Hellenic science, which was preserved and developed by the Muslim world, to Europe through Spain, Sicily and Trabzon-Istanbul lines for 500 years, and the fact that the Italian Republics such as Genoa and Venice were rich in trade, started the Renaissance, that is, the Rebirth. The great geographical discoveries that developed with the Renaissance laid the foundation of the Galilean environment, which revived the spirit of Ionia in Europe. The most important factor that enabled the rapid development of critical thinking in Europe was the prevalence of individual freedom. While the Ottomans did not allow the printing press to enter their country, 20 million books were printed between 1450 and 1500 in Europe, whose entire population was then only 60 million!

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Stunning artwork! Historical and artistic importance indeed!
You're lucky to have it.
Are you planning to exhibit it in public?

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