Shop art print and framed art The Isleworth Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa of Isleworth is a painting produced in the 15th or 16th century, depicting a bust of a woman bearing a very strong resemblance to the famous Mona Lisa on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting is attributed by some specialists to Leonardo da Vinci, while others dispute this attribution. Brought to England in 1778, this portrait, kept in the Somerset manor house of an English private collector, was rediscovered and bought in 1914 by Hugh Blaker, an artist and art dealer living in Isleworth, west of London, hence the name "Mona Lisa of Isleworth". The painting was acquired in 1962 by the art collector Henry Pulitzer, a distant cousin of Joseph Pulitzer, who sold a large number of properties to buy it. The painting was then kept in the safe of a bank in Lausanne. When Pulitzer died in 1979, it was bequeathed to his wife, Elizabeth Meyer. On her death in 2008, the painting became the property of an international consortium, whose members wish to remain anonymous, chaired by David Feldman. Several experts have attributed the painting to Leonardo da Vinci. They base their attribution on several hypotheses. Leonardo is said to have painted two versions of the Mona Lisa. Agostino Vespucci, probably one of the first witnesses, wrote in October 1503 that Leonardo da Vinci was working on the portrait of Lisa. For Carlo Pedretti, in his study of the painter published in 1982 and relayed by Alessandro Vezzosi in 2007, stylistically, the Mona Lisa in the Louvre [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

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