03 — ARTWORK
Mona Lisa (detail)
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 801 × 426 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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The sensuous quality of the picture is shown particularly well by the hands. The right is resting relaxedly on the left which is gripping the chair back. In his description of the Mona Lisa, Giorgio Vasari also praised its vividness, saying that "one could swear that the pulses were beating".
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