Processing
Oil-on-board pictography “Retouch” category. Retouching with Maimeri colors. Details are executed by hand recreating every detail with the utmost care. Solid wood frame gilded with gold leaf. Photo frame may vary depending on availability at the time. Seasoned poplar wood board with anti-swaying back crossbars, carved, prepared with red bole and gilded in gold leaf. Preparation with plaster and 3-layer natural glue. Picture size: 78x52x2.5 cm. Frame size: 99x75 cm.
History
The woman portrayed in Leonardo's painting sits facing the left side of the painting. Her face, however, is almost frontal and her gaze directed toward the viewer. Mona Lisa dresses in 16th-century period clothing. She wears a robe decorated with small spiral motifs in the upper border that leaves her cleavage uncovered, and on her shoulders she wears a dark fabric. The light fabric creates a subtle pleating that descends in dense, parallel drapery. The surface of the skin is soft and smooth and shows a slight anatomical shaping of the fingers such as the nails, which are barely noticeable. The hair is scrimined in the center and falls to the sides in soft, dark, slightly wavy locks. In addition, a light, transparent veil covers the hairstyle and flattens the hair at the top. The background glimpsed beyond the parapet depicts a lake landscape dotted with hills, cliffs and elevated mountains. The bases of two small columns can be glimpsed on either side of the painting. To the left, a road meanders between the rocky heights and is lost behind the cliffs bordering the water. To the right, on the other hand, an arched bridge crosses a river that springs from the lake that lies further up and in the center of the landscape. Toward the horizon the rock structures, watercourse, and vegetation are indistinct and blurred in the gray blue of the atmosphere.
Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Mona Lisa (RETOUCH)