I wonder how many of us have noticed or know about the old
bridge shown in the landscape on the right edge of the famous Mona Lisa painting.
To be honest I had never noticed the background of this
famous painting. Till now I had always seen and read about the lady's face and
her enigmatic smile. However today I came across a small trivia which I am
sharing here with my readers.
Master painter Leonardo da Vinci was amongst the first
painters to use aerial perspective, where the background of the sitter in the
portrait is an imaginary landscape. In this masterpiece painting, the landscape
on the one side of the lady depicts a winding path receding into mountains and the
landscape on the other side shows a stone arched bridge.
As per many sources this bridge in the famous painting is modelled after Ponte Buriano - an
old, seven-arch stone bridge
built in 1277
over River Arno in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Source of info: Wikipedia / BBC
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