On the left is Prado's Mona Lisa which was painted by a student of da Vinci. It is thought that the two were painted simultaneously in the same studio, and so it gives an insight to what the Mona Lisa originally looked like.
I've been both at the Louvre and the Prado. The colors on the Prado's one are vibrant and fresh. It really gives a good view of what DaVinci's work would have looked like without all the centuries of varnish and dirt clouding his work.
It was very common for apprentices to copy the master's work as it would be valid method to understand how to reproduce the techniques.
You can see in the use of perspective, fading the background and adding an atmospheric mist would be the most important traits from the original.
However, you can see that DaVinci's deep knowledge of anatomy are noticeable with the angle of the shoulders, alignment of the neck, even the precise length of the carpus and metacarpus.
The smile is still DaVinci's major proof of mastery.
Edit: there have been several efforts to digitally restore the Mona Lisa. Trulls remarkable.
Interesting side note: ~200 years after it was painted, the background was painted over in black, and in 2012 it was restored to how it looks now. This is what it looked like prior to 2012.
pperca on May 21st, 2017 at 23:30 UTC »
I've been both at the Louvre and the Prado. The colors on the Prado's one are vibrant and fresh. It really gives a good view of what DaVinci's work would have looked like without all the centuries of varnish and dirt clouding his work.
It was very common for apprentices to copy the master's work as it would be valid method to understand how to reproduce the techniques.
You can see in the use of perspective, fading the background and adding an atmospheric mist would be the most important traits from the original.
However, you can see that DaVinci's deep knowledge of anatomy are noticeable with the angle of the shoulders, alignment of the neck, even the precise length of the carpus and metacarpus.
The smile is still DaVinci's major proof of mastery.
Edit: there have been several efforts to digitally restore the Mona Lisa. Trulls remarkable.
http://digitalphotoalchemy.com/mona-lisa-in-original-colors/ http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/News/news3.htm
OtherJaffa on May 21st, 2017 at 23:38 UTC »
Interesting side note: ~200 years after it was painted, the background was painted over in black, and in 2012 it was restored to how it looks now. This is what it looked like prior to 2012.
Blu3H4t on May 22nd, 2017 at 00:18 UTC »
Anyone else unfocus their eyes for a sweet 3d effect?