Mona Lisa prints make great additions to any home, and this article discusses the merits of Leonardo Da Vinci's classic oil painting, Mona Lisa.
Many enjoy this traditional work as both a giclee art print but also as tapestries, stretched canvases and framed paintings.
Despite it's old fashioned style from the renaissance and baroque periods it is still seen at the forefront of art, as is it's artist Leonardo Da Vinci.
La Gioconda, as it is known in Italian, is a work produced by the artist as a commissioned work for a rich Italian family, at a time when Italy itself was a collection of powerful regions that competed fiercely against each other to boast the best art and architecture collections as a sign of status and power.
Leonardo Da Vinci is best known for this painting, but he also produced many exceptional oil paintings and sketches such as the Vitruvian Man and The Last Supper.
The artist's skills were highly varied and he was an inventor and philosopher among other things.
Other exceptional artists whose prints may be of interest from Italy include Michelangelo, Giotto and Raphael, though the list is almost endless and the influence of italian prints can be seen in artist's works all across Europe and beyond.
To conclude it can be said that Mona Lisa prints will surely remain exceptional examples of high quality art at a time when more contemporary movements are holding the greatest popularity.
It is interesting to see new artists still studying great works like the Mona Lisa, and Da Vinci himself is also seen as a great source of inspiration for many.