Welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh, there's chuck, there's J J over there. Let's get to it and talk about. Maybe the most famous painting in all the world. Perhaps sag clown, Hobo John, when Gacy it have you seen the Mona LISA. I have said here I am sure your first impression. Like many people, it was her chair, a small it's impossible than not have you can go into it, saying I'm not going to think there improved. I'm not going to. Let myself think that a you will think that yeah it's to feed six inches by one foot, nine inches, it's a small little It is they have it behind some seriously protective casing. Yet you can't get too terribly close to a new kind of close, but now You know you can't walk up right on in there.

And I think we talked a lot about the why they haven't under casing in our how the Louvre Ex episode, if I remember correctly year, thickly, covered that this is a little more about the lady herself they think for sure that Mona LISA was a person you're, a real person, and there's been a lot of debate over the years, but the the current thinking is: what's your name if her boy is LISA Geraldine, the belgian combo nice, also known as LA gioconda. Very nice did she's a lady, Anne it was a wealthy woman married to a wealthy silk merchant, and the thinking is that he had this commission to celebrate the birth of other impending birth of a child yeah. It's bizarre to think that we don't. We.

Know much about the Mona LISA. It's not that, although mean divinity started, I thinks sitting a three is when he started banning exactly we as what I was gonna say eventually hooker. So it's not. It's also ridiculous. All that that it is completely lost the history and yet it is because the Gioconda family never took possession of it. The reason that they think that their almost certain that that is who it is that it's legit kinder in that painting, is that their there was a book written about it in the time that Leonardo Da Vinci sons were still alive in so still around to refute this was incorrect that it was her that she was the one who is seated there as in years and years later, somebody found a margin note somewhere in some Booker some note book. That said as much that listen Dear Dini, Gardini

I was the Mona LISA that she was going to be sitting for this work. The divinity was working on right and they specula about the impending pregnancy, because she has some kind of law clothing. On in that little smile is interpreted as oh, yes, what's come in and about to give birth came way, so we should probably talk a little bit about it. The artistry the Mona LISA, I'm gonna go ahead and throw it out there. May, Oh really, are you crazy? You don't like it, it's not that I don't like it and it's not a big fan of portraiture period. Not a lot of portraits knock me out, like others. Other paintings do ok, I can appreciate them for sure yeah, but I've never looked at a portrait and been like man, I want that in my house. So bad, not a big Rembrandt fan her now. So I think one of the reasons I appreciated Chuck is because I recently saw decoding divine

I don't ever lower Nova documentary Tom Hanks very, he's kind of Molly did run around all replaced know this was. This is even more legitimate than that. But but they really going to be. You know the techniques that he used in this painting, especially this flu motto, method, very well known for which uses shading and dumb with some other stuff. You have to watch the November so for a true to be explained been, but the at the upshot of it is there's. No. Lines here in the Mona LISA. There's no hardline there's. No, he didn't pain, a line. He suggested lines every line and that painting doesn't clearly exist. It's all in allusion created by the painting techniques that here using the Mona LISA and they really go to town explaining this, and it really makes it that that much easier to appreciate

yeah. Another thing that's mentioned here in the house of works. Article is the fact- and this kind of stood out to me is mostly when you see portraits expression, especially on my lawyer from that era. Is you have someone in a room, maybe necessarily a landscape as well remember landscapes and there were portraits and never between, shall meet, but he blended those two things: together and there is a landscape behind the Mona LISA and an aerial perspective and she's very much in a big open space. With this, these mountains and winding paths behind her in your eye doesn't always go to that because you're looking at that face and that smile, but that look dreamy landscape is certainly back there. Yet I think what would there but their remarking about is that is supposedly an imaginary landscape and that young people than pain, imaginary ones and their people have tried to prove that it actually is an imaginary most recently a pair of attack.

And researchers Olivia Nasty and Rosetta Bork. Here I don't do nearly as well as you, but they said no, it's his place in mind. Fell trout in the EAST of ITALY's of Florence on the Adriatic coast, and there, like this mountain, is this, one this is mounting this. Is this bridge used to be there, but it's since been destroyed. This lake no longer here is fill in my mudslides, but they're pretty sure they pinpointed it, but that doesn't necessarily mean their correct. Its is still speculative, but they have. They seem to have a pretty good case to back it up. There are two opposition. Is the logical condo posed in front of that? No no just stay here He heap that's where he pain. Ok, you know gotten yeah, so so I don't think that they were saying like he made her sit there for years before that she was ever even there, but that it wasn't there point. Is It is not a made up landscape will not me, I'm sure he took a photograph of right and then just were from that here. Knowing divinity, he probably did. I will say

The Mona LISA his eyes following you, the Mona LISA Effect, which he did not invent, but it has referred that way anyway? I know you're pretty pretty ended this idea that eyes can follow you sure that works on a laptop, even it does in and that's a whole other short stuff. If you ask me- but this sum this this, Lisa affect a bit that it being called that dies following you around the room and gaining the it's actually a misnomer, because they ve proven that the Mona LISA does not actually demonstrate the Mona LISA Affect, did demean in does it I mean I don't know. Maybe it was the fact that I get super drunk at lunch pleasure. I was sitting at my task and I was I was going. You know heavy back and forth to the left and right and they seem to be following me or maybe it was suggested, so I saw it that way out an eye. I wonder that man, I wonder if that is because

when I looked in saw that she doesn't have that effect. I was like oh yeah, I totally see it. They say some researchers measured where people pointed on the screen appointed on themselves where she was looking and most people said she was looking pass them to their right about thirty thirty degree angle why it may be parity yeah for both of us who knows are well, let's take a break here and anymore. Here you will hear we will say a little about when and why the Mona LISA became soups famous. Hello stuff, you should know- nurse: do you want a new year's resolution? That's easy to keep yes resolve to help put

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chuck- I thought they break would never come right. So it's funny to think, as famous is the Mona LISA is, but she was fairly neglected by the world until the mid nineteenth century and even then just like a small little group of french art critics. Finally, discovered. You know this divinity painting and we're like this is a masterpiece. This is an amazing work of renaissance art. I every avenue to stop these few hundred years, but it's amazing they didn't really all the rest of the world, and people like the Mona LISA was fine, but it wasn't until she, stolen off of the wall and the Louvre nineteen Eleven that the world really sat up in took notice. It's very much like that. Cinderella song, you don't know what you got until it's gone. Happen happened with the Mona LISA to link. They wrote that about the Mona LISA Right, probably yeah August, twenty first

one thousand nine hundred and eleven there were three handyman that just kind of went out the side door with the Mona LISA. It took twenty six, and this is kind of evidence that she wasn't that big Juliet. It took a whole twenty six hours before anyone even noticed she was gone and whereas today you know there would be alarm bells, while my second it was removed yet, but it was put in the papers, and all of a sudden it can. I ran away in the press the loose shut down for a week and everyone from Pablo Picasso D J, P, Morgan renamed as a potential suspects yeah they

They thought. J. P Morgan was financing people, the steel em for steel, like artworks forum, amazing, and actually it's funny. That raises other thing: chuck real, quick there's there are accusations against wealthy chinese people like who were funding are heist to repatriate chinese art. How interesting it there's like a whole string of our eyes around the world. There are just ancient chinese works of art and they think that some, People in China are financing, it hits. It was a GQ article called the great chinese art heist wow. Well, I certainly believe in repatriation to a certain degree, but I don't know if he should go to that links. So anyway, the newspapers get it out blue shuts down. We're coming to the museum to see what was known as the mark of shame that empty in out non cigarettes and square on the wall and every

and went and went. Is that how big it is little non dusty square and then took a full twenty eight months for the thing to finally reappear within attempted resale from events per year and the the owner of the art gallery that was being offered the spinning said yeah. This is the Mona LISA. You know what I'm gonna make Sure you get a good reward for this. Just stick around and stay right. There go on the other. A may make a quick phone call to the reward centre right in

make sure you get your reward Saturday award right their reward, and then Homer Simpson just stood in place here and waited for the italian policy to come here and he he got busted and he got eight months in prison. For this there was a pretty big our heist, but he was in Florence trying to sell it so installing from the live in Paris and his defense was Napoleon stole this from us, and I was repatriating it myself and, I think, actually kind of God. You know a month as in exactly a slap on the risk, but it's also nada, a ridiculous, and see their fur for what he got so or for what he did. So I think that actually helped that defence worked dino. He read it out his two bodies, I don't oh and I dont know if it would have mattered, because he was the one that lived with it in like the false bottom of his steamer trunk in his apartment for two years before he he tried.

Sell it. So I dont know if it were to help at all and we showed a false bottom steamer drunk does Europe would be pretty handy? Oh, I thought you might like a bottom none and urges the false bomb trunk things like false bottom girls. They make the rock and whirled around cannons false body. Stop it. Can we say that it's not the seven Any longer, I think, we're ok, ok, the anything us nothing! Well then everybody short stuff says, arrive at energy stop you should know, is the production of Iheart radios. How stuff works for more podcast, my heart? Radio, but I had really Apple pie- wherever you listen to your favorite, shows.