Restoration

**gwpriester** · 30 March 2021, 01:14 AM

My wife and I saw the painting in the 80s when we went to Paris and it was behind glass at that time. There are so many better paintings in the world. We were so impressed by this portrait by Vigée le Brun who really captures feminine beauty and softness. The Mona Lisa is hard and androgynous.

**Jonopen** · 30 March 2021, 09:11 AM

I agree there are so many more interesting and thought provoking portrait paintings around the world. Of course art is subjective but It’s fascinating why the Mona Lisa remains so popular. Must be the lack of eyebrows!

Thanks for the ‘Joy of museums’ link. I'm just going around the Art Institute of Chicago at the moment to find Grant Wood’s ‘American Gothic’ (without the crowds!).

**Egg Bramhill** · 31 March 2021, 11:29 AM

Here's an issue I can't find a solution for. The attached xar file previews as expected in a local browser but if I publish it to my server it no longer displays as expected. Any one have any idea why?

**Acorn** · 31 March 2021, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Here's an issue I can't find a solution for. The attached xar file previews as expected in a local browser but if I publish it to my server it no longer displays as expected. Any one have any idea why?

Egg, yo0u have mixed secure and insecure resources. Try changing <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script> to https. Try with a later jQuery version too.

The coding is archaic.
I am sure there are better out there.

Acorn

**Acorn** · 31 March 2021, 01:30 PM

Egg, just threw this together: JS-CSS - Moaning Lisa.xar. Not really checked over for improvements.

The detail was lifted from https://www.csscodelab.com/html5-bef...lider-example/.

Acorn

**Michael** · 01 April 2021, 06:24 PM

It has been restored considering new techniques in use today ...

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**gwpriester** · 01 April 2021, 06:51 PM

**handrawn** · 01 April 2021, 07:58 PM

oh nice one

**jon404** · 07 April 2021, 09:31 PM

I'm 77 now. Saw the Mona Lisa back at the Worlds Fair in New York in what, 1964? It had just been cleaned, and I still remember how blue the sky was, without the old yellowed layers of varnish. Vivid! Found out since that blue paint was very expensive, ground up lapis lazuli blue rocks from Afghanistan, a dangerous place far away from Italy. And that paint was sometimes called ultramarine, meaning beyond the sea. Even though the Mona Lisa sky blue is more of a cobalt blue, a cerulean blue. Still, only rich folks, and the church, could afford those blue skies.
Here in my Tombstone, Arizona Territory, we have those deep blue skies most every day, as it's a military no-fly zone-- cleaner air than DaVinci had, back when. Sweet water, too!