The Mona Lisa displays a painting of a woman who is dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and is seated in a mountainous landscape. It is a remarkable piece of Da Vincis technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling.

The Mona Lisa displays a painting of a woman who is dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and is seated in a mountainous landscape. It is a remarkable piece of Da Vinci’s technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. Leonardo used the shape of a pyramid to place the woman in the center and the folded hands of Mona Lisa are the end of the pyramid. This painting was created in a highly structured place where it shows half the length of the woman that is set on the background. One can also see that there is an even glow of light that lands on her face, neck and hands. The way the woman is sitting in the painting shows her reserved posture and the expression on her face also shows that she is focused on her painter. The woman’s curves of her hair and clothing are echoed by the small background. Her smile is one of the most important aspects in this painting and it shows the visual representation of happiness. This painting was from the renaissance, a period after the middle ages that brought back the culture and the way of ancient Greeks and Romans. During the Renaissance, artists used two main views of art, which were called perspective and humanist views. The Mona Lisa is a perspective painting because the artist made the distant things smaller and hard to see. In perspective art, the author makes one thing much larger and places it in the center so that people can look and focus on it even more; in this painting, it was the Mona Lisa. Renaissance art is a lot different from art from the other periods before it because it did not focus on god and the church like the art from the middle ages did. Instead, renaissance art focused  more on showing off the beauty of humans and other things around them. The Mona Lisa is a perfect example of Renaissance art because Leonardo was showing off the beauty of this woman that is so important in the painting. Also, to bring out the plain beauty of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci made her clothes a dark shade as well as the background behind her so that most of the light will be reflected off her facial features, showing the beauty of the portrait. Another thing to notice about this painting is that the Mona Lisa has no facial hair whatsoever. If you look closely, you can see that she does not have any eyelashes or eyebrows and Leonardo painted her this way because it was a very common thing for the woman of that time period to pluck them all off. This painting is admired by all because of the great beauty that is shown by Mona Lisa and the technique that Leonardo Da Vinci uses to create the different shades of light that contribute to her beauty.