Stealing the Mona Lisa (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The Mona Lisa is unquestionably the most famous painting in the world. Heck, it is probably the most famous work of art in the world. Yet the reason why it is so famous is due to an event which happened on the 21st of August 1911. It was wasn’t for the events of that day, the Mona Lisa would probably just be another painting hanging on the walls of the Louver. Find out what happened to make the Mona Lisa so famous in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Mona Lisa is unquote presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:05.0	The Mona Lisa is unquestionably the most famous painting in the world.
0:11.0	Heck it's probably the most famous work of art in the world.
0:13.6	Yet the reason why it's so famous is due to an event which happened on the 21st of August
0:18.6	1911. If it wasn't for the events of that day the Mona Lisa would probably just be another painting hanging on the walls of the Louve.
0:25.2	Find out what happened to make the Mona Lisa so famous in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. daily. The Mona Lisa is perhaps the greatest painting by the artist Leonardo da Vinci.
0:52.0	There are only about 15 paintings by
0:53.8	Leonardo which still exist and there are debates as to the authenticity of several of them.
0:57.8	The Mona Lisa however is unquestionably a Leonardo. The painting is of a noble woman from Florence named Lisa
1:04.6	Giacondo. The term Mona Lisa just means the Lady Lisa in Italian. It is only
1:10.3	known as the Mona Lisa in English. In Italian it's known as La Jocanda,
1:14.1	and in French it's La Jocand.
1:16.7	The painting itself is an oil painting on popular wood panels.
1:20.4	Leonardo worked on the painting for years,
1:22.4	taking it with him in the last years of his life when he went to work in the court of King Francis I in France.
1:27.0	It is estimated that it was painted between 1503 and 1506, but there are estimates that he may have worked on it as long as 1517.
1:36.2	The image is one of the best examples of his Fumato technique, which consists of very small
1:40.9	brush strokes to create very soft transitions between colors without any harsh lines. It is
1:46.4	undeniably his masterpiece. The Mona Lisa became the possession of King Francis
1:51.2	upon the death of Leonardo and stayed in the palace of
1:53.8	Fontainebleau under the possession of the French crown until the French Revolution of
1:57.4	1797 when it was placed on display in the Louvre. It remains there until today save for a brief period where it was hung in the bedroom of Napoleon.
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