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...Banx’s cartoon (January 30) amusingly refers to the news that a climate change protester had thrown soup at the “Mona Lisa”, which was also covered in Robert Shrimsley’s FT Magazine column “The next big...
...EU climate chief rebuts business fears that green policies hit competitiveness Letter in response to this cartoon: Da Vinci is wrong target for climate protest ire / From Bruce Couchman, Ottawa, ON, Canada...
...You could, in theory, throw yourself in front of the “Mona Lisa”, but people might feel it lacks the element of personal risk which makes for a truly memorable protest....
...Now numbering 2,300 works, it remains smaller than many European equivalents, and boasts neither destination pictures — such as the Louvre’s “Mona Lisa” (c1503-1519), the Prado’s “Las Meninas” (1799) — nor...
...The prudish removal of a jibe about a love rival’s skills on the mattress in “Better Than Revenge” is a misstep, though not exactly akin to Leonardo da Vinci painting a frown over the Mona Lisa....
...I tell him that the Evening Standard newspaper recently equated Le Gavroche’s soufflé Suissesse to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. He laughs. “If I’m honest, I’m sick to the back teeth of it....
...We have published the picture of the Mona Lisa advertising beer because Leonardo da Vinci has been dead for 500 years, taking his work out of copyright....
...In the 1480s, when Leonardo da Vinci fell out of favour in Medici-governed Florence, he sought the patronage of Milan’s ruler, Ludovico Sforza....
...And Leonardo da Vinci only made less than 20 paintings, or something ridiculous like that. Picasso made more than 13,000… In another life, I would have been exactly the same....
...“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” stands alongside Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” as “one of the greatest paintings of all time”, Christie’s declared ambitiously....
...I confess, as a boy, to wearing a Leonardo da Vinci T-shirt. Da Vinci was my idea of cool, and the attraction lay not in the Mona Lisa’s smile or his sketches of natural phenomena....
...What bitcoin is to the US dollar, an NFT is to the “Mona Lisa”....
...If you can’t own the “Mona Lisa”, you could bid for a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting....
...It’s simplest to understand if you think about the parallels with analogue art: a print of the Mona Lisa might look indistinguishable from the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, and a screenshot of an NFT artwork...
...Yet this print is believed to have sold more copies than Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Van Gogh's “Sunflowers”....
...May’s long-term protagonist Enzo MacLeod becomes dangerously involved in the latter case, with da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” somehow relevant to both deaths. May on customarily reliable form....
...Why did Leonardo never deliver the “Mona Lisa” to her husband, who commissioned it? What was my grandmother like as a twenty-something in the Blitz?...
...Mona Lisa may be famously inscrutable, but “Salvator Mundi” has surely replaced her as Leonardo da Vinci’s most enigmatic work....
...This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, and his “brand” has never been more potent....
...Born in 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence, Leonardo joined the workshop of Verrocchio, then one of Italy’s finest sculptors, at the age of just 12....
...For all the devastation, however, this was also an era of extraordinary artistic achievements, the age when Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...
...In a research paper, Lisa Duffy-Zeballos, IFAR art research director, noted that “the painting’s style had no relation to authentic works by Pollock”....
...Five centuries after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is more famous than ever....
...Loans from four Italian museums to a Da Vinci exhibition in the autumn at the Louvre in Paris — whose most famous exhibit is Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — had been called into question after members of Italy’s...
...The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass” ran from October until February at the Paris museum....
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