{"id":3798,"date":"2012-01-18T23:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2020-08-29T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:52:43","slug":"whats-so-special-about-leonardo-da-vincis-mona-lisa-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"question : What&#8217;s so special about Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa painting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a loaded question for me because I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything special about it, not in any aesthetic sense. It&#8217;s the most popular, most expensive painting in modern history, so it&#8217;s special in that sense, but it&#8217;s just another old painting to me.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Da Vinci, assuming he really was the artist he&#8217;s known as, was a talented artist, and it&#8217;s technically an excellent picture. But, when it comes to art, I don&#8217;t really hold portraits in high regard because they&#8217;re more about copying than creating.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the girl in the picture isn&#8217;t physically attractive to me. She looks okay enough in the face, even without eyebrows, but I think she&#8217;d look a lot better if she were a lot thinner. And if she looked a lot better, I&#8217;d appreciate the painting a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a loaded question for me because I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything special about it, not in any aesthetic sense. It&#8217;s the most popular, most expensive painting in modern history, so it&#8217;s special in that sense, but it&#8217;s just another old painting to me. Leonardo Da Vinci, assuming he really was the artist he&#8217;s known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=3798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">question : What&#8217;s so special about Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa painting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,620],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-faces","tag-leonardo-da-vinci"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98221,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/98221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}