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It's actually written in the article at the very end, but it's really interesting to point out that Mona Lisa really was not all that famous until 1911, when it
by shp0ngle 5y ago
It's actually written in the article at the very end, but it's really interesting to point out that Mona Lisa really was not all that famous until 1911, when it was stolen by an Italian nationalist.
https://www.npr.org/2011/07/30/138800110/the-theft-that-made-the-mona-lisa-a-masterpiece https://www.npr.org/2011/07/30/138800110/the-theft-that-made...
It actually took 28 hours before anyone noticed that it's missing.
- cafard 5y agoWalter Pater, who died in 1894, gave the Mona Lisa (referring to it as La Gioconda) some paragraphs in his The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry. (https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2398/pg2398.txt https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2398/pg2398.txt) I believe that W.B. Yeats used them, or an excerpt from them in an Oxford anthology of modern English verse (well after 1911, to be sure).