Does anybody "really" believe that "Mona Lisa" is beautiful? 

Hootie

No not at all.

Not hardly. Not someone I'd give a second look at. Art,maybe,but that's about it.

Must be where "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"comes into play,eh?

Not really...

1 hour ago, *Hootie said:

Does anybody "really" believe that "Mona Lisa" is beautiful? 

Hootie

Only if I owned her. 

nope hideous 

 

 

If Mona Lisa was beautiful, then Da Vinci was a lousy artist.

Da Vinci redefined the rules of contemporary art with the Mona Lisa.

But Mona Lisa is lowkey ugly lol

Maybe Da Vinci's eyesight was fading when he painted Mona.

1 hour ago, fishinfiend said:

nope hideous 

 

 

x2

I mean for a European.... 

If you consider that most women in the 1500s looked somewhere between Rosie O'Donnell and Steve Buscemi, relatively, Mona was a knockout.

Lol 

Beautiful? Not if she was a he!

 

Mona Geezer: Was da Vinci's young male apprentice the model for that famous enigmatic smile?

By PAUL BENTLEY FOR THE DAILY MAIL 
UPDATED: 03:05 EST, 15 February 2011

Art lovers have for centuries debated the reason for her enigmatic smile.

Now it appears Mona Lisa may have been hiding a remarkable secret – she was a he.

An art historian claims the model in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece was one of his male muses, a young man called Gian Giacomo Caprotti, whose nose and mouth bear striking similarities to those of Mona Lisa.

Caprotti, who was also known as Salai, worked as an apprentice with the artist for more than two decades from 1490 and they were rumoured to have been lovers.

Some experts had already suggested Leonardo could have based his masterpiece on a self portrait.

But Silvano Vinceti, a researcher who has been analysing the painting using state-of-the-art high-magnification techniques, also claims to have found the letter ‘S’ in the model’s eyes, which may be a reference to Salai.

Several of Leonardo’s works, including St John the Baptist and a drawing called Angel Incarnate, are said to have been based on Salai.

Mr Vinceti, president of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, said these paintings depict a slender, effeminate young man with long auburn curls and almost identical facial features to the Mona Lisa.

‘Salai was a favourite model for Leonardo,’ he said. ‘Leonardo certainly inserted characteristics of Salai in the last version of the Mona Lisa.’ 

Most experts believe the model for the Mona Lisa, which hangs at the Louvre in Paris, was Lisa Gherardini, the 24-year-old wife of a rich Florentine silk merchant.

They say Leonardo started painting her in 1503. But Mr Vinceti claims he may have started in the late 1490s in Milan, coinciding with the time he built up a relationship with Salai. 

His claims have caused a stir in the art world, with many dismissing the idea that Mona Lisa was a man. Da Vinci expert Pietro Marani said the theory was ‘groundless’.

The art professor at Milan’s Politecnico university said: ‘All Leonardo subjects look like each other because he represents an abstract ideal of beauty. 

They all have this dual characteristic of masculine and feminine.

‘The work began as the portrait of Lisa Gherardini, but over the years it slowly turned into something else; an idealised portrait, not a specific one.

‘That’s also why you have this fascinating face that transcends time and transcends a specific person, and why all these theories keep piling up.’

 

Olive Oyl was hotter

Just now, lo n slo said:

Olive Oyl was hotter

At least she was a she! (I hope!)

Not by today's standards, and probably not back in Da Vinci's time either.

How beers are factored into the original question?