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David
43 posts |
#21903 2007-09-10 15:24 GMT |
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If Leonardo da Vinci the guy who painted this picture was Italian how come the painting is in Paris and not Florence.
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Minnie
43 posts |
#21904 2007-09-10 15:27 GMT |
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I guess because the Louvre is a famous museum.
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DTrain
54 posts |
#21905 2007-09-10 15:27 GMT |
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Because its FINDERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS!
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David
43 posts |
#21906 2007-09-10 15:27 GMT |
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because they bought the painting.
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Gilbert
38 posts |
#21907 2007-09-10 15:28 GMT |
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good question
guess the louvre must have purchased it I seen the painting and its quite small |
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Victory
34 posts |
#21908 2007-09-10 15:32 GMT |
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Leonardo da Vinci was pretty famous. He was invited by the King ,Fracois I to crete some more art, and the King liked the painting and bought it.
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WildFlower
46 posts |
#21909 2007-09-10 15:33 GMT |
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The one in the Louvre is a copy. Dan Brown has got the real one.
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Helen
29 posts |
#21910 2007-09-10 15:33 GMT |
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At the time Italy was not a united country but a series of city states made alliances with each other and neighbouring countries but also went to war with each other and neighbouring countries. Leonardo Da Vinci travelled to France with his painting (known as La Gioconda) where King François I bought the painting from him. It is now owned by the French Government
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Victory
34 posts |
#21911 2007-09-10 15:35 GMT |
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Francois I king of France bought it from Leonardo, that's how it's ended in France.
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Nicki
44 posts |
#21912 2007-09-10 15:37 GMT |
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i guess the king of france bought it of him,,lol
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Someone
25 posts |
#21913 2007-09-10 15:38 GMT |
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Napoleon nicked it !
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BlindPoet
32 posts |
#21914 2007-09-10 15:50 GMT |
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BECAUSE IN STUDY IN FRANCE
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TheGatesOfBill
76 posts |
#21915 2007-09-10 16:17 GMT |
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She's really such an ugly old bat that nobody in Italy wanted the picture until Leon. DaVinch became famous.
By this time some moron in France who thought he could see into the future, handed over some of the folding stuff to get hold of the picture because he thought that it was going to be the basis for a novel about some mystical religious code, which would be made into a film once film had been invented. As you know of course he bought the wrong picture although the one he'd bought did finish up in a story about a prostitute which was later made into a film starring Bob Hoskins. |
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SplitDog
34 posts |
#21916 2007-09-10 16:38 GMT |
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Interesting question. Leonardo took the painting from Italy to France in 1516 when King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise. The King bought the painting for 4,000 écus and kept it at Fontainebleau, where it remained until moved by Louis XIV.
Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre. (Since then, from time to time, during wartime, it has been taken out of the Louvre for safekeeping, but has always been returned there). I hope this answers your question. |
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Lassie
379 posts |
#21917 2007-09-10 17:32 GMT |
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Hi there.
because the Frogs bought it, as the most famous painting in the world. When it was new, it caused a huge sensation with its lifelike appearance, showing like a real person with fresh skin and sparkling eyes - leonardo was proving a point and he was the first recorded to go to that level of detail, painting every single eyelash. people queued for miles to see it and it made him famous. looks a bit dim now, having aged, but it was a cracker then (a bit like myself). the original is never displayed, they have three 18th century copies they show instead by rotation. Cheers, Steve. |
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MortalKombat
35 posts |
#21918 2007-09-11 04:44 GMT |
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Bit of a long story.
It was his favorite work, and he carried it around with him. Leonardo took the painting from what was a land of little kindoms, - Italy to one of the owners of thet land - France in 1516. Many believe the Mona Lisa to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo. (Thus the Mona Lisa is known in Italy as La Gioconda.) Others have suggested the subject was a mistress of da Vinci, or even a self-portrait, with da Vinci imagining himself as a woman. It is known that Leonardo began the portrait in Florence in 1503, continued work on it through 1506, and then kept the painting until his death in 1519. Over the next three centuries the Mona Lisa passed through many hands, even hanging for a time in the bedroom of Napoleon, but since 1804 its home has been the Louvre Museum in Paris. King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise. The painting was aquired after Leonardo's death a dealer in furniture called Millieut, and then the King eventually bought the painting for 4,000 écus and kept it at Fontainebleau, where it remained until Louis XIV. Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre. Napoleon I had it moved to his bedroom in the Tuileries Palace; later it was returned to the Louvre. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, it was moved from the Louvre to a hiding place elsewhere in France. |
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