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The significance of Mona Lisa is that at a time where reference, technology and photography hadn’t been developed, Da Vinci managed to make it as close to reality as possible. The smile is enigmatic and things like her gaze, posture and background blending perfectly to even hidden animals and inventing a technique to complete it as well. Even the model’s background is part of its iconic infamy.
The impression I got is that Da Vinci put so much of himself into it. He carried it around throughout a good portion of his life, and was basically his obsession. Couple that with a bit of mystery as to who she is, and other visual quirks, and it’s theft…it’s got quite a bit of history going for it. Don’t take any of this too much to heart, I barely listened to the documentaries and youtube videos talking about it.
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