Treasures of the Louvre Page #2
- Year:
- 2013
- 90 min
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Renaissance art, Vincent Delieuvin.
La probleme que j'ai avec
La Joconde, c'est...
TRANSLATION:
'The problem I have gotwith the Mona Lisa
'is that she is such
a big media star.'
THEY SPEAK FRENCH
TRANSLATION:
'What you have to do is'to try and forget that she
is such a big star
'and really get into the painting.
'Get up close
and love it for what it is,
'and she definitely invites us
to love her.
'It's such an incredible ability
of the painter to portray that
'most difficult and subtle of human
expressions, the smile.
'There are 1,000 ways of interpreting
a smile, and that was the genius
'of Leonardo, to be able to capture
'such a subtle and rich human
expression.
'She is such a flirt.
Of course she's a huge flirt.
'The French like that sort of thing,
'but hey, you're not completely
untouched by her, are you?'
# Mona Liiiii-saaaa. #
What else is there left to
say about this painting?
Only that in the 16th century,
La Joconde, as it's known
in France, was something quite
new in Western art.
TRANSLATION:
'The idea of creating asense of contact between the viewer
'and the subject had never
been done before.
'Or the open posture with her hands
turned towards us.
'She's greeting us as if we were
in her palace, in her room, even.
'It's even smiling at us.
'That technique of drawing the viewer
directly into the painting
'was hugely innovative.
'Was all this a new departure for
Western art? Absolutely.'
'How many politicians' portraits have
you seen in the style of La Joconde?
'Everyone uses Leonardo's style,
from the framing to
'the posture, to the direct approach
of the subject to the audience.'
So how influential was this approach
to portraiture at the time?
Well, let's go back
to the portrait of Francois.
Had its creator, Jean Clouet,
seen the Mona Lisa?
We don't actually know. But Francois
does look us straight in the eye.
His body is turned
towards the viewer
and his hands face the same way
as da Vinci's Florentine lady.
And as with her, we are drawn
towards the personality of the King.
Francois was not only a patron of
the arts but a builder of palaces.
He'd spent some time in Italy
style of the Renaissance palazzi.
pulled down.
Moats were filled in and a
courtyard built, the Cour Carree,
overlooked by this imposing
and ornamented facade.
And within, the King demanded
a makeover of gloomy
royal apartments.
This is the Salle des Caryatides.
I think it's a place that best
captures the spirit
and feeling
of the Renaissance Louvre.
It's a vision of science
and nature in harmony,
and it signals the beginning
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