1. Stelmah O. and Mikhaylova O. 308 gr. philology

6. Mona Liza Leonardo’s most famous & misterious work. Well know for it’s mastery of technical innovation as for the mysteriousness of it’s legendary smiling subject. Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo Leonardo used a pyramid design to place the woman simply and calmly in the space of the painting. The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape. The enigmatic woman is portrayed seated in what appears to be an open loggia with dark pillar bases on either side. Only her gaze is fixed on the observer and seems to welcome them to this silent communication.

8. Lady with an Ermine The sitter has been identified with reasonable security as Cecilia Gallerani who was the mistress of Leonardo's employer, Lodovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro. At the time of her portrait, Cecilia was about sixteen. She was renowned for her beauty, her scholarship, and her poetry There are several interpretations of the significance of the ermine in her portrait. The ermine, a stoat in its winter coat, was a traditional symbol of purity .For Ludovico il Moro a further personal of the ermine witsignificance in that he had been in the Order of the Ermine in 1488 and used it as a personal emblem. The association h Cecilia could have been multiply intended, referring to her purity and to the status of her lover.