Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
“Yo, Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?” sang Wyclef Jean on the Fugees’ debut album, in 1994. Around half a century earlier, Nat King Cole had crooned about Mona Lisa as the lady with the mystic smile in an Oscar-winning song. Fast-forward to 2018, when power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z punctuated their […]
Louvre: Pyramid for a Symbol
By Lourve Museum In the centre of the Cour Napoléon stands the most visible product of the vast ‘Grand Louvre’ project that modernised the museum in the 1980s: the Louvre’s Pyramid, an architectural feat that has come to symbolise the museum itself. A monumental entrance in the shape of a pyramid! What a bold undertaking […]
Mona Lisa, The World’s Most Famous Painting (video)
Arguably the most famous painting the modern world has ever known, yet it’s not how it’s always been. Let alone the possible price of the painting itself, its valued so much that the room in the Louvre that houses and protects this painting cost over $7.5 million. The Mona Lisa is a portrait of […]
Art Museums, A Legacy to Humankind
Through the ages, art has shaped the very fabric of our society. The buildings that house these works are shrines to human thought and experience. Art museums are monuments to what man has achieved and what he aspires to achieve. They are a testimony to man’s desire to be more than himself. – Mark Bouton […]