{"id":54767,"date":"2024-07-31T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=54767"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:04:20","slug":"mona-lisa-comment-causes-a-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/07\/mona-lisa-comment-causes-a-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Lisa Comment Causes A Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47505\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47505\" class=\"wp-image-47505 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: a portrait of a woman with dark hair and clothing against a landscape background including trees, hills, a river, and a stone bridge.\" width=\"182\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1-768x1145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Mona Lisa<\/em> by Leonardo da Vinci<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Should the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> be relocated to Italy? This question was raised after a prominent archaeologist answered in the affirmative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Zahi Hawass is arguably the most famous archaeologist in the world. As an Egyptologist, he has taught at both Egyptian and American universities. He has also served as excavation and\/or restoration director at many archaeological sites, including Giza, Saqqara, Abu Simbel, and the Valley of the Kings. Furthermore, he is also a vocal proponent of returning Egyptian antiquities to their country of origin. These include <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/what-rosetta-stone-return-egypt-british-museum-1234637096\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Rosetta Stone<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in the British Museum, the <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/Article\/4\/92793\/Zahi-Hawass-Now-is-the-time-to-try-and-retrieve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">bust of Nefertiti<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Berlin\u2019s Neues Museum, and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cairoscene.com\/buzz\/zahi-hawass-calls-out-uk-government-on-desecration-of-egyptian-national-treasure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the many obelisks<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> taken from Egypt to serve as public monuments in Europe and elsewhere. Small details can often have widespread consequences when dealing with subjects such as this. And, of course, for many of these items, it\u2019s on a case-by-case basis, which is why Hawass may have needed to think a little more carefully when he announced he would support efforts to return the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to Italy. He should have been careful because there\u2019s just one problem: for something to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be returned<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> somewhere, it had to be there in the first place. And the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has never spent much time in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has only spent a few months outside France in the five centuries since its completion. Of course, scholars and the public often hail Leonardo da Vinci as one of the great figures of the Italian Renaissance. The <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa\u2019s<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> subject is also Italian, as Lisa del Giocondo was the wife of a prominent Florentine merchant. However, Da Vinci spent his final years in France as a guest of King Francis I. Da Vinci took the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> with him, having worked on it on and off for over a decade. After he died in 1519, the portrait went to Leonardo\u2019s friend and pupil Sala\u00ec, who then, in turn, sold it to King Francis. It remained in the French royal collection, moving from palace to palace, such as the Tuileries, Fontainebleau, and Versailles. After the French Revolution, the government moved the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to the Louvre, where it has remained ever since\u2026 for the most part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For much of its history, the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was not a particularly well-known painting outside of scholarly circles. That changed in 1911 when the Italian nationalist Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting from the Louvre and tried to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. He believed that a masterpiece by a great Italian artist should <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be exhibited<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> at a great Italian museum. The Uffizi\u2019s director, however, had no intention of being an accomplice to the theft. The Uffizi exhibited the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for two weeks before returning it to Paris. Some say that more people visited the Louvre to look at the empty space on the wall than they ever did to see the painting itself. This incident cemented the painting\u2019s international fame. The only other time the painting has left France is for special international exhibitions. The French government loaned the painting to the United States for exhibition in New York and Washington between December 1962 and March 1963. Later, France lent it for exhibition at Tokyo\u2019s National Museum, followed by Moscow\u2019s Pushkin Museum in 1974.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Although most art historians accept that the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has spent nearly all its time in France, Italian nationalists often put forward a different provenance. France has to be the story\u2019s villain to give Italy any claim over the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Therefore, some claim that King Francis stole or seized the painting illegitimately. Others will claim that Leonardo <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">actually<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> left the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Italy rather than bring it to France. According to this alternate history, the painting stayed in Italy until Napoleon\u2019s Italian campaigns in the 1790s, with French troops bringing the portrait to France. French troops brought many pieces of Italian art to France during the Napoleonic Wars, but the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was not one of them. Mistakenly grouping the portrait with these other artworks likely set Vincenzo Peruggia\u2019s plan in motion. But in an era where information is so readily available, no one should be using this argument now. In <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/07\/26\/why-there-is-no-case-for-returning-the-mona-lisa-to-italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">an article for <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/07\/26\/why-there-is-no-case-for-returning-the-mona-lisa-to-italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Art Newspaper<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, art historian Martin Kemp wrote, \u201cWe may feel that the na\u00efve Peruggia can scarcely be blamed for jumping to the wrong conclusion. Hawass has less excuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Restitution has to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be considered<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on a case-by-case basis. Every work of art in a museum far away from where it <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was first created<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has a different history and circumstances from each other. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> only becomes more obvious with older items that are centuries old. Some of these paintings and antiques pre-date the formation of the countries that now ask for their return. Many artifacts have <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">been taken<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> from Egypt. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some were stolen<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">others were gifted<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> or sold off by Ottoman authorities. If the Egyptian government asks for the return of the Luxor obelisk, now at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, can Turkey, as the Ottoman Empire\u2019s successor state, also claim ownership over it? So, in the hypothetical situation where France gives away the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, who would they give it to? Italy as a country did not exist before the reunification efforts of the 1860s and 1870s. So would it go to Rome, the seat of Italy\u2019s government? Florence, where Leonardo lived and worked for much of his life? Will any Italian museum do? However, none of these questions really matter since no Italian individual, institution, or government has any claim to the <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mona Lisa<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Questions over the Mona Lisa<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, in fact,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> distract from the actual, legitimate debates over the restitution of items that <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">were <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">actually<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> stolen<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should the Mona Lisa be relocated to Italy? This question was raised after a prominent archaeologist answered in the affirmative. Zahi Hawass is arguably the most famous archaeologist in the world. 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