Mona Lisa Makes Debut Before American Art lovers
WASHINGTON (ITU Still
smiling, the Mona Lisa went on
display Tuesday in a country that
was more interested in arrow
heads than art when Leonardo da
Vinci painted the enigmatic lady.
But it is douhtful she is dis-'
turhed by her American debut.
The Florentine matron has an ad
venturous history behind her.
There were Delaware Indians
living along the banks of the Po
tomac River when da Vinci paint'
ed the portrait sometime during
the period of 1503-06. About a mil-l
lion of the new inhabitants of the!
Potomac area and other sections
of the United Slates are expected!
to visit her during her stay at the
National Gallery here.
French Culture Minister Andre
Malraux conducted the first
group of visitors to a red carpet
welcome for the Mona Lisa Tuesday.
Guests at the welcoming cere
monies included President and
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon
Wednesday, January 9. 1963
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Mrs. Kennedy and French Ambas
sador and Mme. Herve Alphand
The portrait will be placed on
public exhibition Wednesday for
the first time in the united States
Sold for $10,000
The history of the Mona Lisa,
began when da Vinci painted the
portrait of an Italian nobleman's
wife on a piece of poplar wood
A few years later the portrait was!
sold to King Francis 1 of France
for 4.000 gold ducats about
$10,000.
Francis took the painting to his
palace at Fountainbleu, near
Paris, where it remained for over
150 years. Gradually his succcs-i
sors moved their headquarters tol
the famous Versailles Palace and
in 1695 the painting followed. Aft-!
er an 11-ycar stay there, the Mona!
Lisa moved again, this time to a
wing of the Tuileries Palace later
to be known as the Louvre. Paris
world-renowned art museum.
In 1911, the long period of trail
quility came to an end. An overly
zealous Italian patriot, deciding
that the work of an Italian master
had no place in a French mu
seum. He stole the famous paint
ing.
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