konserwowanie: Mona Lisa

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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record payment for a work is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission) for the work Salvator Mundi (c. 1500) generally considered to be by Leonardo da Vinci, though this is disputed. The painting was sold in November 2017, through the auction house Christie's in New York City.

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Mona Lisa Revealed. Distributed by Microcinema International/Microcinema DVD, 1636 Bush St., Suite #2, SF, CA 94109; 415-447-9750Produced by Caroline CocciardiDirected by Caroline Cocciardi2008, DVD, color, 50 min. Bonus material 6 min. Lisa di Antonio Giocondo was immortalized by the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci. His painting of her is the beloved Mona Lisa, and it is quite simply the most famous piece of art in the known universe. Painted sometime during the years 1503-1506, she can still generate front page news 500 years on, as Mona Lisa Revealed promulgates. There are really two stars in this film—Mona Lisa, and the French engineer Pascal Cotte. Enthralled by the painting from a…

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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism. The painting has been traditionally considered to depict the Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo. It is painted in oil on a white poplar panel. Leonardo never gave the painting to the Giocondo family. It was be…

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Food Politics and Popular Culture in Hilda Baci’s 2025 Jollof Rice Guinness World Record

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Toyota Mirai sets 845-mile Guinness World Record

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Supplemental Information 1: Official biological record held by spiders in the Guinness World Records database (www.guinnessworldrecords.com).

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A Painter, a Painting, and Perception in The Mona Lisa Vanishes. The author reviews Nicholas Day’s The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, A Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity (2023), including background information and a discussion of the book’s exploration of the nature of contemporary celebrity culture.

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The Hekking Mona Lisa – where the value of a painting, even a very good copy, lies

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LEONARDO AND THE MONA LISA STORY: THE HISTORY OF A PAINTING TOLD IN PICTURES BY DONALD SASSOON AND MONA LISA: INSIDE THE PAINTING BY JEAN‐PIERRE MOHEN, MICHEL MENU, AND BRUNO MOTTIN

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Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a result of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 d…