If you're talking about the one that's directly across from the Mona Lisa (looking at The Mona Lisa, turn 180 degrees), that painting is "The Wedding Feast at Cana" by Paolo Caliari, also known as Veronese.
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In the Denon wing, 1st floor, room 6, you will find 22 paintings, Mona Lisa and the following 19 Italian paintings, one Flemish and a French one:
Camille Corot (French): Woman with a Pearl (not the famous Vermeer one!)
van Calcar (Flemish): Portrait
Dosso Dossi: Portrait of a Man
F Brusesorci: Holy Family with a Saint
de Pitati: Virgin and Child
Palma Giovane: Portrait of a Man
Palma Veccio: Adoration of the Shepherds
G Savoldo: Self Portrait
J Bassano: 5 mythological subjects
Tintoretto: Old Man wirh a Handkerchief
Tintoretto: Self Portrait
Tintoretto; Paradise
Tintoretto: Susanna and the Elders
Tintoretto: Portrait of a Nobleman
Titian: Ecce Homo
Veronese: Holy Family with Saints
Veronese: Road to Calvary.
Virgin of the Rocks, by Leonardo da vinci
No. It's not a Virgin of the Rocks!!! it is The Wedding Feast at Cana (by Veronese)
The huge painting with the size of 6.77 x 9.94 m
Leonardo left the paintings that were in his possession (including the Mona Lisa and St John the Baptist) to his apprentice Salai and all of his notebooks to his apprentice Melzi. He also lef a cloak to his house servant - Caterina P.S. I - Please note that Leonardo's mother was also called Caterina but, this is not the same person. P.S. II - A few years later when Salai was killed in a bar brawl, his heirs sold the Mona Lisa to King Francis I. The Mona Lisa has been in France ever since.
Angus mazwell painted the abomination next door to were the mona Lisa was painted, they were both painted at the same time.
Original Answer: People think the Mona Lisa is such a great painting because in the painting the woman's eyes are very mysterious. Where ever you stand they seem to follow you. People are facsinated by this which is why it is so good. Rebuttal: There is nothing good about the Mona Lisa to make her stand out from all the other portraits that were created during the High Renaissance. The woman in the Mona Lisa portrait is a noblewoman, and her "mysterious smile" is nothing more than the way all noblewoman were portrayed. There was a decorous way the women had to present themselves and the half-smile is a smirk down to the lower classes, in essence saying that she is better than all the people below her in rank. Also, the painting has been cut down over the years. One owner decided that the frame he already owned upon obtaining the painting was more important than the painting itself. The painting used to be twice the size that it is today and there were once columns on either side of the painting. If people think that this painting is such a mysterious painting, then they are only uneducated and buy into the hype around the painting. To say that you have seen the Mona Lisa is to make it seem to other uneducated people that you have seen something remarkable and worth writing home about. Instead of waiting for the hundreds of people that seem to constantly surround the Mona Lisa on a daily basis, take a look at some of the other paintings that are in the same gallery and that are unfortunately neglected by people who would rather see a famous noblewoman smirking at them.
THE MIDDLE GROUNF IS THE SAME AS BACKGROUN EXCEPT IT IS A LITTLE CLOSSER TO THE FORGROUND eg...IN THE MONA LISA THE RIVER AND THE GROUND IS THE MIDDLE GROUND AND THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE BACKGROUND AND MONA LIS WITH A LIGHT GRIN IS OBVIOUSLY THE FOREGROND THATS THE FOREGROND MIDDLE GROUND AND BACKGROUND FOR YOUU I HOPE THIS ANSWERE YOUR QUESTION I AM IN YR 12 AND I DO ART I REMEMBER STUDDING MONA LISA IN YR 9
Mona Lisa's parent's names are Antonmaria Di Noldo and Lucrezia Del Caccia.