. . . . . He {Leonardo} began working it in 1503, when he returned to Florence after serving Cesar Borgia. But he had not finished it when he moved back to Milan in 1506. . . . He would even take it to France on the final leg of his life journey adding tiny strokes and light layers through 1517. It would be in his studio there when he died. ~ Page 474
. . . “His insatiable curiosity, his restless leaps from one subject to another, have been harmonized in a single work,” Kenneth Clark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clark wrote of the Mona Lisa. “The science, the pictorial skill, the obsession with nature, the psychological insight are all there, and so perfectly balanced that at first we are hardly aware of them. - page 477
. . . Whatever the case, subsequent discoveries have tgended to confirm much of his account, so it provides a good starting point for chronicling the masterpiece:
Lendoardo undertook to paint for, Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife. . . Whoever wished to see how nearly art could imitate nature was able to comprehend it when he saw this portrait.. . . . ~ Page 478
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. . . “His insatiable curiosity, his restless leaps from one subject to another, have been harmonized in a single work,” Kenneth Clark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clark wrote of the Mona Lisa. “The science, the pictorial skill, the obsession with nature, the psychological insight are all there, and so perfectly balanced that at first we are hardly aware of them. - page 477
. . . Whatever the case, subsequent discoveries have tgended to confirm much of his account, so it provides a good starting point for chronicling the masterpiece:
Lendoardo undertook to paint for, Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife. . . Whoever wished to see how nearly art could imitate nature was able to comprehend it when he saw this portrait.. . . . ~ Page 478