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    By watching Mona Lisa Smile, I noticed that life as a young adult during the 1950 's was similar and very different than how life is now in 2005. In the 1950 's birth control was unheard of and people made it out to be against the law whereas today, birth control is the most widely used drug to prevent pregnancy. Within a typical 1950 's household, the soul responsibility of a wife was taking care of her husband and kids and the husband’s role was working for his family and keeping them financially

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    The Mona Lisa has been largely unknown for 300 years. She is also known by the name La Gioconda because she was the wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. She is currently 500 years old with an interesting history. She was painted by Leonardo DaVInci and her purpose is unknown. Some believe it to be a self portrait of Leonardo himself as a cross dresser. Others believed that she's older than the rocks in which she sits and had died numerous times which seems outrageous

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    Artist Leonardo da Vinci created Mona Lisa with her mysterious smile .Donatello created amazing sculptures which he used math to do so. Michelangelo created the iconic Sistine chapel ceiling. Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello and Michelangelo the most influential artist of the renaissance era. Leonardo da Vinci a painter, architect, inventor who loved science and lived from 1452 -1519. He appreciated with Andrea Del Verrocchio. Today he is best known for Mona Lisa and the last super paintings that remains

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    One of the world’s most famous paintings is the Mona Lisa. It was created by the Renaissance’s most highly praised artist, Leonardo da Vinci, in the years 1503 to 1506. Leonardo worked on this painting while he lived in Florence, Italy, and it is made using oil paints on a poplar wood panel. The painting depicts, simply, a woman in front of an expansive landscape of rocky hills, valleys, mountains, and bodies of water. It was discovered in King Francis I’s royal collection, but this is no surprise

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    asked for sculptures and paintings by da Vinci, none of which became as famous as the “Mona Lisa”. Leonardo da Vinci was an intelligent and talented man who left the people either praising him or ignoring him. Leonardo da Vinci’s best work today that has left an impact in art history is known as “Mona Lisa”. It is not for sure, but recent research has left historians to believe that Mona Lisa is actually Lisa Gherardini, who was the wife of Francesco de Giocondo, a rich silk merchant from Florence

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    Lina Saifan ARTH 1010-81 Assignment 3 Professor Williams. The Mona Lisa One of my most favorite paintings in the history of Western art must be the Mona Lisa. This sixteenth- century oil painting is one of the world’s most famous paintings. It was painted by the famous Italian painter, architect, sculpture, draftsman, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci. It is well known that the Mona Lisa painting is portrayed as the most visited, viewed, written, and sung about painting in the world. This portrait

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    The Mona Lisa Illusion As one of the most renowned paintings of all time, the Mona Lisa, a half-length portrait of a woman painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506, attracts millions of visitors to the Louvre each year. When seeing the painting, people interpret it differently. Does the smile reveal a mischievous smirk, a peaceful expression, or an empty heart? There is no set answer. For artists, being able to imitate the Mona Lisa demonstrates their solid artistic

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    food out on the table for dinner time and bore children to produce a family, that is all they were needed for. However, in the film Mona Lisa Smile (2003), a professor at Wellesley College contradicts those ideals that had been set forth, among many other things, such as teaching her students life lessons on love, art, and education. Taking place in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile is a fictional drama that depicts the everyday lives of poised and proper schoolgirls at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The

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    Mona Lisa Smile Analysis

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    Mona Lisa Smile is set on the Wellesley College for girls in 1953. Wellesley College is located in New England, and at the time this college campus and area of the country was very liberal and proper. During the school years of 1953 and 1954 Katherine Watson, a teacher, was hired in the Art History Department. Katherine Watson was from California and had dreamed of teaching at this school for years. Once she was there, however, the school she had dreamed about was different than she expected. Rather

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    One of if the most famous paintings in the world, is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was one of the paintings that set Leonardo apart from the other artists. But the Mona Lisa didn’t start out that way. No one looked at the painting and began to praise Leonardo for his talent. In fact, the Mona Lisa began as just another painting at the Louvre. It became famous because it was stolen. In 1911, a worker at the Louvre stole the Mona Lisa. In the two years that it was gone, it attracted more attention

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