Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 8 years ago
Mona Lisa and some of the apostles (?)
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We are here to start our Autumn Series of "Что?Где?Когда?" games. Lingvo Online experts will be facing the (virtual) TV audience. Here below you will be given a question, answers on which you should write in the commentary section.
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ROUND 1.
Leonardo da Vinci used to look for the models for his paintings really thoroughly. He could be in search of them for months, even for years. However, the two different characters of his he drew using only one model. Please, name these characters.
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Discussion (8)
Tatiana Osipovaadded a comment 8 years ago
I read about a hypothesis that Leonardo da Vinci served as a model for his own self- portrait and painting Gioconda (Mona Lisa).
Igor Yurchenkoadded a comment 8 years ago
one of them just ought to be Mona Lisa, and the second one - the Vetruvian Man, maybe? Or one of them helicopter things =)
Сергей Касаткинadded a comment 8 years ago
None of the previously given answers is correct, but Elena was somewhat closer to getting it than the others.Keep going, you`ll nail it!
Igor Yurchenkoadded a comment 8 years ago
then I'll assume that two people at The Last Supper have been painted from one model? Maybe Jesus and Judas - that would be ironic.
Сергей Касаткинadded a comment 8 years ago
Yes, Igor, you're absolutely right! That`s the one!
It is said that Leonardo da Vinci knew that in a man`s soul there`s a struggle between the evil and the good, the dark and the light, the Satan and the God. And when a man chooses to follow one of these two paths, not only he changes inside, he also changes outside. That is why da Vinci used one model to portray both Jesus and Judas.
Marissa Zebaduaadded a comment 8 years ago
Igor is almost always right!. :-) If he wins all the challenge. I will be cheering up from here. Night, people! Isn'it toooooooo ironic, dont ya think? It is like raaaaaain ... I just thought about Alanis M. after reading the word ironic. ,-)
Igor Yurchenkoadded a comment 8 years ago
thank you, Сергей. It was just a lucky guess, really. Before I've read Elena's comment I wasn't even sure that Leonardo has painted The Last Supper =)
Thank you, Marissa, for your cheering, it definitely helps!