Why is the mona lisa so famous?
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s most well-know work, is an iconic painting for several reasons. One being the sheer mystery of the subject’s slight smile. Other reasons can be found in the technicalities of the painting; the placement and separation of the subject and viewer, the placement of the subject in a fantasy landscape, and the artist’s use of lighting techniques typically reserved for paintings depicting the Madonna. There have been few other paintings that have been thus analyzed and revered to the degree of the Mona Lisa’s popularity.
