Thursday, December 16, 2010

- personification and character of Mona Lisa -

In extreme urge to figure out what is the real meaning behind the character of Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo,  many different individuals with the backup of science and the media, came up with many different hipothesis.

Most recent one is an attempt to read the letters, possibly written in the eyes of Mona Lisa by the author, letters LV (initials of Leonardo) in right and possible CE (or BS) in her left eye. The idea is to introduce the light (in Italian luce: LV CE) as the entire message of the painting, or to see Mona Lisa as a personification of the light itself.

Although Leonardo was extremely supersticious as a character himself, and his works most certenly include certain secret messages and techniques, it is important to understand that symbolism in art is not there necessarilly to be revealed. Symbols often have certain ambiguity, art works sometimes reconcile meaning and the reality itself. 

Before, there was another theory, a possible reading of Mona Lisa as an autoportait, where the name of the painting stands for mon analyse (my analysis) or analysis of myself.

Other than that, nature does not open the door of the sanctuary to anyone. And in Science and in Goodness, the true wise man must evermore 

keep silent.



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