英语词汇mona lisa smile的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Mona Lisa smile; Gioconda smile. The Mona of Mona Lisa is short for Madonna or Milady. Leonardo da Vinci worked over a period of four years on his celebrated portrait of Madonna Lisa, who may have been the wife of the Florentine gentleman Franc- esco Giocondo. Little is really known about the portrait, among the most beautiful in the world, which was completed in 1506 and is still famous for the enigmatic smile that the sitter wears, which has generally been regarded as subtly sensual, a smile of feminine mystery expressing some secret pleasure or emotion. Leonardo is said to have had music played during Madonna Li- sa’s sitting so that the strange rapt expression wouldn’t fade from her face, but this is only one of the many legends attached to the painting, as is the story that Leonardo was in love with the lady. The painting was sold to Francis I for 4,000 gold florins and has remained a treasure of the Louvre ever since, except for a brief period when it was stolen and returned to Italy. The Mona Lisa smile is sometimes called the Gioconda smile, and the enigmatic Madonna’s husband is sometimes identified as Zanobi del Gi- ocondo of Naples rather than Florence.

词汇	mona lisa smile
词源	Mona Lisa smile; Gioconda smile. The Mona of Mona Lisa is short for Madonna or Milady. Leonardo da Vinci worked over a period of four years on his celebrated portrait of Madonna Lisa, who may have been the wife of the Florentine gentleman Franc- esco Giocondo. Little is really known about the portrait, among the most beautiful in the world, which was completed in 1506 and is still famous for the enigmatic smile that the sitter wears, which has generally been regarded as subtly sensual, a smile of feminine mystery expressing some secret pleasure or emotion. Leonardo is said to have had music played during Madonna Li- sa’s sitting so that the strange rapt expression wouldn’t fade from her face, but this is only one of the many legends attached to the painting, as is the story that Leonardo was in love with the lady. The painting was sold to Francis I for 4,000 gold florins and has remained a treasure of the Louvre ever since, except for a brief period when it was stolen and returned to Italy. The Mona Lisa smile is sometimes called the Gioconda smile, and the enigmatic Madonna’s husband is sometimes identified as Zanobi del Gi- ocondo of Naples rather than Florence.
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