Prado museum finds another Mona Lisa
IS this an early copy of the Mona Lisa? It’s been found at Madrid’s Prado Museum. The Prado’s experts have cleaned it up and now say the portrait was made at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci produced his masterpiece. It was made in the same room. You cannot argue with the experts who declare that there are now two Mona Lisas.
That tiny portrait in the Louvre, the one surrounded by rope and rows of people with cameras, is cracked and dirty. The one at the Prado is as clean as the day it was made.
Mona Lisa 2 will soon be loaned to Louvre. It will hang in the same gallery as Mona Lisa 1. Then it will return to Madrid, to a museum that will able to boast that it contains the Mona Lisa.
Anyone else interested in having a version of the Mona Lisa in their local gallery can buy a version here – and hire Old Mr Anorak, our patron, who, for a fee, can prove that he was in the room when Da Vinci painted his classic wall hanging. (Cash only.)
Meanwhile, in London… (spotter @dannywallace)
Posted: 1st, February 2012 | In: The Consumer Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
February 2nd, 2012 at 2:21 am
i strongly believe its a Mona Lisa copy done along with original.
i also like the news because i always wanted the monalisa get the credits for being the woman in the portrait, and that she was famous to many painters back then as a model who just posed the perfect pose for her time in history and they all liked it!
i imagine that the fabric layering and colors that she is wearing is stunning,her beautiful complexion,her smile is just wonderful and her eyes expression are very impressionistic. spain done good!
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:10 am
I wouldn’t lend anything to the Louvre. The french are likely to declare it was stolen from some obscure french church centuries ago, slap an export ban on it and keep it, just as they recently did with a work owned by a UK art Gallery.
February 1st, 2012 at 10:43 pm
I like the other Mona Lisa.