The Stories of the Mona Lisa: An Imaginary Museum Tale about the History of Modern Art

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Dad will you tell me a story A story Yes any story you want Okay sure Why don’t I tell you a story about the history of painting Painting has its own story Of course it does And the Mona Lisa the most beautiful painting in the whole world is going to guide us through it How come that’s the most beautiful painting in the world Nobody has ever been able to portray as much life in a face as Leonardo da Vinci did with the Mona Lisa And life equals beauty It looks like a photo At the time before photography had been invented portraits had to be as accurate and realistic as possible If I were to order a portrait of my daughter for example I would expect expect to see my daughter on the canvas So when photos were invented all the painters lost their jobs No they just changed how they went about their work The desire for paintings that looked like their subjects meant that accuracy and delicate shading and coloring were vital but these requirements were suddenly no longer necessary You could say that everything a photo did the painters stopped doing by themselves So what did they do That’s what I’m going to tell you about 4 The sTories of The mona lisa