Bernard Berenson wrote a notable essay on how he escaped the shamanic inflfluence of this work, which he claims "had simplybecome an incubus.
Bernard Berenson wrote a notable essay on how he escaped the shamanic inflfluence of this work, which he claims "had simplybecome an incubus." The artist's anatomical drawings of a young man's straight veins and an old man's bloated veins werethe models respectively for the serpentine river on the leftft background and the wide river on the right spanned by a bridge.Vasari claimed that the artist kept a troupe of musicians and jesters on hand while painting this work to amuse the sitter so itwouldn't be infected with the melancholy that painters give their subjects. A notable description asserts that the main Âfigure"like the vampire, has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave." Walter Pater claimed the main Âfigure ofthis painting "is older than the rocks among which she sits." Barely visible vertical strips of column flflank the title fiÂgure ofthis painting who sits on a loggia and is portrayed with the corners of her eyelids and mouth leftft undeÂfined as part the artist'strademark sfumato technique. Depicting Lisa del Giocondo, for 10 points, name this portrait by Leonardo da Vinci with anenigmatic smile.
Bernard Berenson wrote a notable essay on how he escaped the shamanic inflfluence of this work, which he claims "had simplybecome an incubus.
Mona Lisa [accept La Gioconda before "Giocondo"]