The Mona Lisa It is the most famous painting in the history of art. Leonardo da Vinci painted it at the beginning of the 16th century, and it is currently on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Although it is considered to be invaluable, some experts estimate that its price could be as high as $ 5 billion. There are many enigmas that surround this pictorial work, and that is precisely a large part of its charm. Now an art critic has found a hidden detail of the Mona Lisa.
In mid-February the BBC published a report by the prestigious art critic Kelly Grovier, who raised the following question: “How many of us have ever consciously noticed the object in the painting that is closer to us than any other: the chair in which the mysterious woman sits?” Observing the work in detail, we notice that all the fingers of his hand touch or point to the chair. Although at first glance it appears to be hidden, it can point the way to the deepest meanings of the Mona Lisa.
The model is not sitting in any chair, but in the one called on the cockpit. Pozzetto means “small well” and introduces a very subtle symbolism into the meaning of the work. Suddenly, the waters that meander behind the Mona Lisa no longer look distant and disconnected, but flow toward her. The fact that the Mona Lisa is placed inside a “small well” is very revealing because Leonardo da Vinci managed to transform it into an ever-fluctuating dimension of the physical Universe.
According to the art critic, the Mona Lisa is not in a real landscape, like the Italian river valley Arno as some historians maintain, but that she is the landscape. As with all the visual symbols used by the great Renaissance artist, the pozzeto chair links the Mona Lisa with the force of water.
If so, the paintings It would no longer be simply secular, but its meaning would become much more complex than previously believed. And Grovier remembers that in the history of art he remembers that there are a great number of representations of wells and women.
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