"Mona Lisa"

My artist was a very famous artist by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci was born in 1452, in Italy. He wasn't just an artist; he also was an architect, musician, sculptor, scientist, inventor, and a mathematician. His most famous drawing was called the "Mona Lisa" (above). Other than his painting business, Leonardo wanted to be an inventor. He wanted to create a flying machine. He also mostly painted portraits. A weird thing about Leonardo Da Vinci is that he wrote notes backwards because he didn't want people to read about his discoveries or steal his ideas.

As I said before, Da Vinci's most famous painting was the "Mona Lisa". I really like this photo, mainly because of her smile. People say that they believed that the famous half-smile was a recovered memory of Leonardo's mother. The background in the painting looks almost like icy mountains with dirt roads. This is the only painting that is here in the United States. The other paintings are in Europe.

I think that this painting is supposed to be about his mother also. Even though the name of the painting is “Mona Lisa”, named after the woman in the portrait, Lisa Gherardini, I still think that it has to do with Da Vinci’s mother. I also think that the background of the portrait is supposed to be something in the past because of the dirt and nothing else. That is my interpretations on the "Mona Lisa".