The Mona Lisa Vanishes
What is unusual about Leonardo's handwriting?
backward and in reverse direction (mirror script)
Where does the completed Mona Lisa hang in the French king's home?
bathroom
Leonardo is commissioned to create a huge horse. why doesn't it get built?
bronze is used in war
How did the Mona Lisa become one of the most famous paintings in the world
by getting stolen
What were art students who came to copy famous paintings called?
copyists
Why did Bertillon and Lepine assume the theft was by someone upper-class
crime was not violent, and seemed to require intellect
what social norms are broken in the Mona Lisa
eye contact, plain clothing,
What was the new type of identification that Bertillon added to his system
finger prints
what part of producing a work of art is Leonardo bad at?
finishing
Where was the entrance guard when the Mona Lisa went out the front door?
getting water to clean his booth
What had the Louvre recently started adding to paintings that Louis Beroud did NOT like?
glass over some paintings
What was the deal Vidocq mad with the police when he was caught?
he became an undercover informant instead of jail
What are some of the lies Leonardo put in his letter to Duke in Milan?
he claimed to be able to make tunnels, armored vehicles, cannons, catapults, "an infinite variety of weapons"
Why did Duveen laugh when a man offered to sell him the Mona Lisa?
he did not want to be involved with the investigation
What was wrong with the theory that master thief Adam Worth stole the Mona Lisa?
he died 10 years earlier
how did a plumber help steal the Mona LIsa
he helped the thief get through a locked door (with pliars)
How did King Charles VIII contribute to the creation of the Mona Lisa?
he invaded Milan, Leonardo fled to Florence where he painted it
why did the Dryfus affair damage Bertillon's reputation
he testified twice and was wrong
Why did the commission for "the Adoration of the Magi" say that Leonardo had to finish or get paid zero?
he was famous for not finishing
Why does Leonardo not want to use the Fresco method to paint the last supper?
he would have to work fast
Why can't Leonardo become a notary like his father
his mother was not married to his father
What did Leonardo discover about the human heart before medical science?
how Heart valves open and close
Leonardo da Vinci spent time observing the natural world, like when he took hundreds of measurements of ...
human bodies
why were the paintings in the Louvre not locked down?
in case of fire, the guards could get them out quickly
What unusual pet did Picasso have?
Monkey (also a mouse)
What business was Leonardo da Vinci's family in?
Notaries (early version of a lawyer)
What did the workmen who were the first to notice the missing Mona Lisa do
Nothing (other than joke about it being taken away)
Apollinaire was the smooth-talking friend of which painter?
Picasso
Who created the new painting style called cubism?
Picasso
Who was the painter that abandoned the rules of perspective and instead painted from multiple perspectives at once?
Picasso
Who tells Leonardo to stop skinning corpses?
Roman Catholic church
The heads stolen from the Louvre by Pieret were almost dropped in what river
Seine
Why didn't the thief roll up the Mona Lisa once it was out of the frame?
it was painted on 3 slabs of wood (joined into 1 )
How did Bertillon prove that Vernet was really Simon
measured him at a party
When did Leonardo deliver the Mona Lisa to the Gherardini family?
never, it is inherited by da Vinci's assistant
how old was the Mona Lisa when it was stolen?
over 400 years
What does Leonardo agree to do for Francesco del Giocondo in 1503?
paint a portrait of his wife
What did Brigadier Paupardin believe was the reason the Mona Lisa was not on the wall where it belonged?
photographers must being using it
How did Pope Sixtus IV impact Lisa Gherardini?
sent an army to destroy Florence. her father's land was destroyed
Why did Lisa choose to marry Francesco?
she did not have a choice
Why does the author say Lisa should have been a nun?
she had no dowry for a marriage
Leonardo is often called the original Renaissance Man, what is that?
someone skilled in a variety of unrelated areas
What did you have to know to get a painting off the wall of the Louvre
special hooks that only employees were taught about
How does the Mona Lisa travel over the Alps into France
strapped to a donkey
Photography, Literacy, and printing all came together at just the right time. The world now saw the Mona Lisa everywhere except..
the Louvre
What conclusion was drawn after staging a fake theft (that mimicked the Mona Lisa heist)
the Mona Lisa was stolen by a museum insider
What did the thousands of people who visited the Louvre come to see after the theft of the Mona Lisa
the absence of the Mona Lisa
Where was the thief's fingerprint found?
the glass that had covered the Mona Lisa
Why does the Mona Lisa appear to glow?
think layer of white lead paint
when is Leonardo da vinci born?
1452
When was the Mona Lisa stolen?
August 21, 1911
what was this system called: police recorded very specific measurements of criminals in order to identify them
Bertillon system
Who was the guard in charge of the Salon Carre when the Mona Lisa was stolen?
Brigadier Paupardin
Investigators the 3 types of criminals that people expected, the Secret admirer, the Lone madman and the ...
Consummate Professional
What had all the Louvre guards retired from (job requirement)
French army officers
Who was in charge of the Louvre when the theft occurred?
Georges Benedite
What stolen property do we know Picasso had in his home?
Iberian statues (heads)
Who was the rich American people assumed had bought the Mona Lisa
J.P. Morgan
who teaches Leonardo to paint?
Verrocchio
who started the first private detective agency in the world
Vidocq
Who dissects a lot of dead human bodies?
Leonardo da Vinci
who is Caterina di MeoLippi
Leonardo da Vinci's mother
sfumato
Leonardo invents this technique of blending
Name the woman painted in the Mona LIsa
Lisa Gherardini
Who was the chief of police in Paris when the Mona Lisa was stolen
Louis Lepine
Where was the Duke of Wellington Painting eventually found
Luggage rack Birmingham rail station
Who makes fun of Leonardo for not completing the horse project
Michelangelo
Who did Picasso betray when he was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa?
Apollinaire (claimed he didn't know him)
What else did the thief steal from the Louvre besides the Mona Lisa?
a doorknob
What does Francesco del Giocondo take as a dowry for Lisa Gherardini
a farm
Before the Louvre was an art museum, what was it?
a fortress, later a palace
what does Leonardo paint on a shield that causes his father to nearly faint?
a monster
