La Joconde - Leonard de Vinci
L'oeuvre la plus visitée au 21eme siecle.
Transcript
00:00 It's the most visited art object in the world in the 21st century.
00:02 Painted until 1517 by Leonardo da Vinci,
00:07 not the actor, nor the Ninja Turtle,
00:09 no less than 30,000 visitors come to see it every day.
00:12 However, it was stolen in 1911 by Vincenzo Perugia,
00:15 an Italian stained glass carver who participated in the work of Miss Souvert
00:18 and who gave up the joconde under his arm.
00:20 Besides, the police at the time had accused Apollinaire and Picasso,
00:23 while the canvas is in Paris, under the bed of this good old Vincenzo.
00:27 It will finally be found two years later in Florence.
00:30 It is now extremely well protected.
00:32 In addition to cameras and half a dozen guards,
00:34 conservators and scientific staff pick it up every year
00:37 to check its isolation in vibration,
00:39 humidity variations and temperature changes.
00:42 Finally, if you had to retain a technical information about the joconde,
00:45 it would be the technical characteristic of sfumato,
00:47 or "smoked" in Italian,
00:49 which gives imprecise contours, almost blurry,
00:52 by superimposing layers of paint in an extremely delicate way,
00:54 as we can see it around the eyes of the joconde.