Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

To understand the painting of who the Mona Lisa is we have to understand more about the artist who painted the picture. Mona-Lisa simply translated to Lady Lisa was probably a painting of a middle class woman who at the time Leonardo was so captivated by the woman’s beauty and elusive smile is what caught the painters attention that he himself was obsessed with the picture, even when it was finished he never delivered it. The last 16yers of his life Leonardo carried this painting with him wherever he went, even into exile.

 While growing up he was separated from his biological mother, who was married away to another man in the next town away from where he grew up in Tuscan in Florence and was raised by his step mother, both who had so much love for the young Leonardo that the smile he had depicted in the painting of the Mona Lisa could have been the thing that caught his attention while painting maybe because he had last seen this smile on his mother. It is the sort of smile where we as the viewer are not quite sure if she is smiling because she knows something that we don’t or a smile that says you caught me not on my best of days. So the painting could have been a painting of his mother maybe but the smile seen in the Mona Lisa could also be seen in his other painting of two women and child called the Virgin and child with St. Anne, which could also could have been a reflection of his two mothers who he was so dearly loved and raised by.

Question still stands to who is this painting of the Mona Lisa. Well to my prediction, I wouldn’t say it was Leonardo who had painted himself as a woman, or that it could be a painting of the Virgin Mary or  Mary Magdalene , but in fact a painting of this middle class lady named Lisa, who was probably pregnant at the time in her mid 20’s there is evidence due to her swollen hands and her posture, as to cover up what lies beneath her dress in the painting, and this woman at the time probably wanted a picture of herself before she gave birth to the child she had been carrying, or the painting of her was to celebrate her pregnancy.

The background of the painting, which i think has very little and no relations to Mona Lisa herself, shows the a landscape of what Leonardo imagined what it used to look like before it became what it is today, and in relation to Mona Lisa where Leonardo came to the understanding that women played a big role in the world to the cycle of life, where the mans role was very quick and easy.