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If you want praise of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as art, you can find it.
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Indeed, the interplay of life reflects the duality.
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This enigma.
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It's even illuminating.
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But look at the smile.
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But what if you think it's just...fine?
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What's the cynics explanation for the Mona Lisa?
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Why is the Mona Lisa so, so famous?
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Is it really that much better than Da Vinci's Lady with Ermine?
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That seems better.
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There's one more ermine.
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But it's Mona who is so famous that the director of the Louvre,
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where Mona Lisa lives, said 80 % of their visitors are only there to see that one painting.
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If you don't think Mona Lisa is famous just because she's somehow 10 times better than every other painting, her story reveals something more interesting.
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Something about how art breaks into wider culture.
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And it might never have happened if the Mona Lisa hadn't disappeared.
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Before Mona Lisa became a mass culture star, before she vanished, one critic made her a work of art worth taking.
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And he was so over the top, insanely in love with the painting, that he single -handedly made it a masterpiece.
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Walter Pater's 1873 book, The Renaissance, was key.
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It came out more than 350 years after Leonardo painted Mona Lisa, but it defined the painting for Victorians.
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That was key in an age when it was hard to actually see the art, so the words did the work.
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Here is the epic, semi -colon, stuffed paragraph at the center of his Ode to Mona Lisa.
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Highlights?
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The animalism of Greece.
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She is older than the rocks among which she sits.
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Like the vampire, she has been dead many times.
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This was the purplest prose of all time, but people loved this stuff.
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Oscar Wilde thought the essay's writing was great.
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He praised the musical of the mystical prose, and every general interest profile of the Louvre,
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from academic guidebooks to discussion clubs in Paducah, used Pater's words to talk about Mona.
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Other critics jumped on.
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Mona was a popular, secular painting that they could analyze.
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Likewise, unlike Da Vinci's Last Supper, they could supply all the meaning.
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But even at her peak, Mona Lisa was just art world famous, not the most famous painting of all time.
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In 1907, a vandal at the Louvre targeted a picture by Aang, not Da Vinci.
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And in 1910, amidst rumors of theft, papers called Mona just the second most famous painting in the Louvre, after Raphael's Sistina Madonna.
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It took a real theft to take Mona from art syllabus highlight to mass culture icon.
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These are Vincenzo Perugia's fingerprints.
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This is Vincenzo Perugia's mugshot.
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He has one because on August 21, 1911, the former Louvre worker lifted the Mona Lisa off the wall and took it home.
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It took the Louvre a day to even notice, but the media didn't have as subdued of a reaction.
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The painting went missing for two years, and every time the press, often quoting Pater, called it the greatest portrait there ever was.
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They speculated that Mona's smile had driven the thief mad, they wrote art thief fan fiction, and they constantly daydreamed about Mona Lisa's whereabouts.
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Thousands went to the Louvre just to see empty hooks hanging on the wall.
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The robbery and manhunt were like a two -year ad campaign for the painting.
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And because you couldn't just google Mona Lisa before it was stolen, it was hard for people to see the actual painting and say, what's the big deal?
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When Perugio was caught, he said his goal was to bring Mona back to her native Italy.
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By then, she was the most famous painting in the world due, in part, to her absence.
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Just as critics could smear prose on her blank face, the press could haine a reputation on those empty hooks in the wall.
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When Mona Lisa was stolen, she left a masterpiece.
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After her recovery and a two -week tour in Florence, she returned to the Louvre bigger than just art.
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She was a story and a legend and prominently shown in every paper that reported her recovery.
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It was the big reveal after two years of suspense, now with a story that merited Walter Pater's hyperbole.
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From that point on, she attracted presidential speeches and parodies.
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We've also come to pay homage to this great creation of the civilization which we share.
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The momentum never stopped.
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In the end, the cynic's interpretation and the gobsmacked critic's interpretation have something in common.
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Mona Lisa isn't a portrait, but.. a blank face, a place for critics to paint meaning, and people to find mystery.
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That's why she was so famous, not because of how she's painted, but what we see in her.
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If that's not art, then what is?
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I found one 1909 description of the Mona Lisa that seemed particularly prescient.
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The writer said, Even those whose first expressions is, huh, and proclaim frankly that they cannot see her beauty or her interest,
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find themselves disputing hotly over both.
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That's probably still the case today.
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