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...Like the Mona Lisa’s face and the human body, the Aston Martin DB9 has the 1.618 ratio governing the relationship between height, width and length....
...Inevitably, one of my friends, Mona, was there, having a picnic birthday party complete with takeaway pizza and cake — although “you wouldn’t dare catch me cutting a cake with a wine glass,” she told me....
...“No street artist in Paris will ever say the ‘Mona Lisa’ is better than his own painting,” Ashwani Gupta, Nissan’s chief operating officer, told the Financial Times over video link this week....
...Mike Newell’s 2003 Mona Lisa Smile, for which she earned a record $25m, making her Hollywood’s highest-paid actress, was a disappointment both artistically and commercially, reflecting the vicissitudes of...
...Critics have compared the proposed new wings to sticking “Mickey Mouse ears on the Mona Lisa”, but Mr Orr said the additions would be of high architectural quality that would contribute to a landscape already...
...This is the unlikely venue for the second outing for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Earlier Mona Lisa”, an exhibition showcasing a portrait also called the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” and designed to “prove” that Leonardo...
...Opponents of the hotel development, some of whom had likened the two stepped-back modern wings with “Inca-style terraces” to painting Mickey Mouse ears on the Mona Lisa, had argued that rejecting it would...
...“What are the cash flows of the Mona Lisa?”...
...The move has been likened by purists to making the Mona Lisa prettier. The decision prompted a rare moment of self-doubt – approximately 10 minutes he says, admitting: “It was a risk.”...
...Then, on February 28, Sotheby’s will hold a sale of contemporary art with five Banksys, including his “Happy Copper” and “Mona Lisa”....
...Of the great masterpieces of the 16th century, the altarpiece is the one that is least known and can still be seen afresh, without the crowds thronging the Sistine Chapel or the Louvre’s “Mona Lisa” and...
...This year has also started well for other Bloomsbury authors with Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan entering the top 20 UK mass market fiction list....
...On October 19 the company’s Olympia saleroom sold an early example of the artist’s “vandalised oils” – a copy of the “Mona Lisa” customised by Banksy to show her eyes striped with paint (estimated at £15,000...
...After his death, Leonardo’s stature continued to grow, but the “Mona Lisa” wasn’t his most famous work....
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