Is It Her Twin or Sister? An art collector in 1913 made a discovery that has baffled many historians for some time now. Huge Blaker‚ an English art collector found the Isleworth Mona Lisa shortly before World War I. The Isleworth Mona Lisa is a painting of‚ what looks to be‚ a young Mona Lisa. This painting has been identified as a Leonardo da Vinci painting‚ but some historians believe that this cannot be true. With some differences in the paintings they believe it may have been another
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The Mystery of the Mona Lisa As Donald Sassoon emphasizes in Becoming Mona Lisa‚ the Mona Lisa has managed to maintain its status as the world’s most recognizable work of art. The author notes that many who visit the portrait find themselves wondering just what makes it so special. The lady in the portrait is not particularly beautiful and the painting itself is beginning to look its age. Yet despite all this‚ art historians continue to write and argue over the painting‚ and tourists continue
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In The Simpson’s episode titled‚ “Lisa the Skeptic‚” there is a dig for archaeological artifacts on the grounds of a future shopping mall. This is prompted by Lisa Simpson‚ who is upset by the excavation of the land‚ as it could be disturbing the potentially historical value of this land in Springfield. Thus‚ she contacts her lawyer and negotiates permission to excavate the site of the future mall with the businessmen. The owners of the land agree to the archaeological dig‚ as it could draw in publicity
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The Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous of paintings. It is an oil painting‚ painted on poplar wood. The painting is most famous for the smile of the woman‚ which people have been trying to decipher for a long time. Many believe that the portrait is that of Da Vinci himself‚ while many also place a lot mystic connections with this painting. The portrait depicts a woman’s bust‚ with a distant landscape that is visible in the backdrop. Leonardo used a pyramid design
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Mona Lisa Smile The movie "Mona Lisa Smile" is set in the 1950s and deals with the starting feminist’s movement against traditional roles. The main character‚ "History of Art" teacher Katherine Watson‚ arrives at the conservative all-women college of Wellesley and tries to teach her really smart students not only art history but also independence. She also wants her students to know that their aim‚ namely getting married‚ does not have to be their only purpose of life‚ but that it is also possible
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influenced and altered our appearance. Lisa Kramer‚ Auguste Toulmouche and Pablo Picasso all used the mirror to symbolize a reflection to which figures can practice harsh self judgment or vanity. The overall message communicated by these three artists have been greatly impacted by the historical context of their time. It effected the way the artists represented the figure’s distortion of self and demonstrated subjects harsh self-judgement or vanity.
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Point #3 in Body (Point: The full picture) The woman is shown seated in an open area‚ and behind her is a vast landscape‚ which recedes to an icy mountain. Some winding paths and a far away bridge is also perceptible in the background. The Mona Lisa is perhaps Leonardo DaVinci’s most famous of paintings. It is an oil painting‚ painted on poplar wood. The painting is most famous for the smile of the woman‚ which people have been trying to decipher for a long time. Many believe that the portrait
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Lisa Englard is a math teacher who takes her job seriously; when her class presented trouble with word problems she began to research. Upon doing so she found that students had trouble solving problems when key words are left out. Singapore corrected this by developing the model method which has proven to be useful seeing as they rank among the best in math. When using the model method students draw pictures to represent quantities and their relationships this helps them choose operations and sequence
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Whirlpool Europe Case Case one involved Whirlpool Corporation‚ which is the worldwide leader in the home appliance industry. The company joined the European market in 1989‚ and grew in market share over the next ten years. In 1999‚ the vice president of logistics and the chief financial officer thought about investing in an enterprise resource planning system. This system was known as Project Atlantic. The purpose of this new system was to re-organize the information flow of the entire company
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Practitioner Article ROI in social media: A look at the arguments Received (in revised form): 16th June 2009 Tia Fisher has worked in on and offline marketing for over ten years‚ and in 1997 joined the New Business Development Team at eModeration (www.emoderation.com)‚ a leading international moderation and social media management company that lists many Fortune 500 companies among its clients. ABSTRACT Return on Investment (ROI) has become the Holy Grail of social media. Marketers are
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