Asked whether he thought the great Italian master had intended to confuse viewers, he said yes.
當被問及他是否認為這位意大利大師故意迷惑觀賞者時,他說是的。
“He(Leonardo da Vinci) wrote in one of his notebooks
他(達芬奇)在筆記中寫道,
that he was trying to paint dynamic expressions
他嘗試著畫出動態(tài)的表情,
because that's what he saw in the street.”
因為那是他在街上所看到的。
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the work between 1503 and 1506, shortly before his death.
1503到1506年間,達芬奇繪制了這部作品。
It was for Lisa del Giocondo,
這幅畫像為麗莎·戴爾·吉奧康多而作,
the wife of a wealthy Florentian businessman,
這位佛羅倫薩富商的妻子,
in celebration of the birth of her second son.
為慶祝她第二個兒子的誕生。