Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa, also known as Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is a portrait painted by Italian artists Leonardo da Vinci. The portrait is small, about the size of an A4 page, yet it took over a decade to complete. Da Vinci worked on the image between 1503-1519. The world famous painting of The Mona Lisa now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

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Muppet Mona Lisa

Missy Piggy from the popular kids’ TV series The Muppets has been transformed into The Mona Lisa courtesy of Photoshop. Shown below is the mysterious Mona Lisa smile that won over fellow cast member, Kermit the Frog.

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Mona Lisa Avatar

The movie Avatar inspired a wealth of fan art in which celebrities were portrayed as having blue, patterned skin like the characters from the movie. Here is the Mona Lisa as she would appear if she lived on the planet Pandora.

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Banksy’s Mona Lisa in Graffiti

Famous graffiti artist, Banksy, has created a controversial view of da Vinci’s character in this Mona Lisa graffiti art work.

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Mona Lisa in Hollywood Bollywood

If Mona Lisa were a current celebrity, she would most likely be an actress or model. Would she appear in Hollywood films or Bollywood movies?

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Dali Mona

In 1954, Salvador Dali created a self portrait with himself as the Mona Lisa. The picture shows Dali’s characteristic crazy eye expression and pointy moustache.

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Mona Winehouse

This Amy Winehouse fan art portrays the singer as the Mona Lisa. Winehouse (1983-2011) had a distinctive image, with unruly hair and extroverted make-up designs, which can be seen in the picture below.

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Lisa Diesel

Muscle actor Vin Diesel has been photoshopped into the famous painting to produce a satirical parody of Mona Lisa. The painting has gone from containing a delicate, feminine form as a subject, to showing off the bulging muscles of Diesel.

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Most leaf carvings take weeks or even months to create. The work is incredibly delicate and requires a steady hand and attention to detail. Because of the small size of the finished art piece, mistakes are more noticeable, forcing the leaf carver to work slowly and carefully at all times.

Famous Faces in Fall

A popular subject for leaf sculptures is a portrait of a celebrity or famous personage. These beautiful celebrity portraits are then pressed, preserved and framed so that they will last for decades. Some of the most popular celebrity leaf carvings are of the famous painting The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ and actress Marilyn Monroe.

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Buddha’s Life in Leaf Art

Buddha is the central figure of the Buddhist religion, which practices many forms of meditation. An art form as delicate and painstaking as leaf carving can be quite meditative, as it forces the mind to focus on one thing only. It is apt that Buddha, a symbol of meditation and calm, be the subject of leaf carvings.

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Famous Places Carved into Pressed Leaves

Most leaf carving artists like to use leaves from the Chinar tree, native to the Asian countries of Pakistan, India and China,because of the organic structure of the leaf. These leaves are also considered to be lucky in some Asian cultures. Chinar leaves are very similar in appearance to the Maple leaf, the official symbol of Canada. The Maple leaf is another favorite carving medium among leaf sculptors. Shown below are leaf sculptures of The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, The Statue of Liberty in New York, America, and the skyline of the Canadian city; Vancouver.

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Leaves of Magic and Mystery

The following images show a miscellany of leaf carving designs. Some are artist’s renditions of an actual creature, such as the Japanese koi fish, and others are products of pure fantasy, such as the Chinese dragon. The two baby angels are from Michelangelo’s fresco painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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The Original Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man was created around 1487, and is so called because it is accompanied by notes on the architecture of Vitruvius. The famous sketch is an overlay of two images; that is, two images of the same man in two different poses. The Vitruvian man has intrigued people for centuries, and continues to be popular today. It has inspired many artists to put pen to paper and create their own renditions of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man.

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1. Go Go Vitruvian Gadget!

Based on the main character from the TV series Inspector Gadget, this variation of Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man has all the bells and whistles.

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2. Vitruvian Mon

Featuring a popular character from the anime TV series, Pokémon, this artist’s rendition of The Vitruvian Man combines Rennaissance and cartoon art techniques.

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3. Leonardo Vitruvian

This piece is a pun on the name given to this character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; ”Leonardo”. The character was named after the creator of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci. In the animated TV series, Leonardo’s brothers were also given names of famous artists; Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello.

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4. Big Boned Vitruvian Cartman

Southpark‘s popular character, Cartman, is depicted here in the pose of the Vitruvian Man, his arms and legs stretched to their utmost limits.

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5. Venomous Vitruvian

Spiderman’s despicable doppelganger, Venom, from the comics and movies by Marvel Comics, is depicted in this Vitruvian variation. The artist has used the original sketch in his fan art, adding webbing designs to the hands and feet, and drawing venom in such a  way that he seems to be climbing out of the page.

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6. Homer (Doh!) Vitruvian

With his perfect physical form and elegant posture, Homer Simpson makes a graceful subject for this study of man’s proportions.

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7. HULK Vitruvian man

Another of Marvel Comics’ popular characters, The Hulk, has been used in this fan art, along with his human counterpart, Dr Bruce Banner. Instead of the image consisting of one subject in two poses, this picture shows two subjects in two poses. The beauty of this artwork is that the two characters are essentially the same person in two different forms.

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8. Cyanide and Vitruvius

The popular internet based comic Cyanide and Happiness has simple, appealing characters, as seen in this artist’s rendition of The Vetruvian Man. (Read Cyanide and Happiness online)

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9. The Fatruvian Man

In this visual criticism of the declining health of modern humans, the original sketch has been edited to appear as though the model who posed for the sketch has put on weight.

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10. Vitruvian Muppet

The Muppet Show is a popular children’s series that uses puppets. The lovable muppet puppet designs gave rise to scores of fan art featuring the characters. Here is Beaker, the luckless assistant of Dr Bunsen Honeydew, looking characteristically off balance as he poses for a sketch resembling The Vitruvian Man.

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