television series episode

Mona Lisa

episode of NCIS (S16 E18)

Notable quotes

“To you, a prostitute is some kind of beautiful object. You respect her as you do the Mona Lisa, in front of whom you also would not make an obscene gesture. But in so doing, you think nothing of depriving thousands of women of their souls and relegating them to an existence in an art gallery. As if we consort with them so artistically!”
— Walter Benjamin, Letter to Herbert Belmore, June 23, 1913, in The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940, p. 35
“Florence Thompson, the Mona Lisa of the 1930s, a migrant mother whose picture haunted the nation.”
— Bob Dotson, In pursuit of the American dream (1985), p. 4
“The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye — all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.”
— Walter Isaacson, as quoted in "What we can learn from Leonardo da Vinci's passion for both art and science" by Emily Donaldson, MacLean's (17 October 2017)
“Prese Lionardo a fare per Francesco del Giocondo il ritratto di Mona Lisa sua moglie.”
— Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife.

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