Mona Lisa. The most
famous painting of the world changes place in the Louvre to invest a
room directly dedicated to its smile: the room of the States, the
hugest part of all the Museum of the Louvre. It occupied this
room since 1966 but had circulated many times in the museum according
to the restorations and of the successive external exhibitions.
The presence of this masterpiece in this room is directly related to
the chronological circuit of the Italian painting of the Louvre as to
comfort necessary for the 6 million annual visitors of the Louvre who
can admire Lisa Gherardini (alias Mona Lisa) with a light and a space
worthy of its celebrity. The Japanese company Nipponese Network
Television entirely financed the 5 million euros necessary to this
removal, incredible clue of the world passion caused by the Mona
Lisa. After four years of work, the painting finds a natural
light due to a canopy, relayed by a similar artificial light as the
clearness of the day decreases. A window armored, tight and
treated anti-reflecting, protects the small masterpiece painted on a
parquet floor from poplar. Our wise heroin thus has a complete
wall for it all alone. At the opposite, the lage Wedding of Cana
by Véronèse covers a full wall. Wink of the history
of art. Mona Lisa smiles to Christ changing water into
wine. Spirituals drunks.
