This photo of the Mona Lisa was posted on This is Colossal. It looked dark so I made a copy and applied the Photo Tools > Brightness Levels Dialog > Auto and the restored masterpiece is on the right half.
No need to thank me Signore da Vinci.
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This photo of the Mona Lisa was posted on This is Colossal. It looked dark so I made a copy and applied the Photo Tools > Brightness Levels Dialog > Auto and the restored masterpiece is on the right half.
No need to thank me Signore da Vinci.
And with a few additional tweaks.
Great job Gary.
She scrubs up nicely!
Nice work!
I was at the Louvre in 2014 to see something else but happened to go past the painting. It was crazy, all the people taking selfies. It’s installed behind bulletproof glass which might account for the original darker image.
Here’s a snap I took as I skirted around the mayhem.
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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.
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!).
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
Egg, just threw this together: Attachment 129293. Not really checked over for improvements.
The detail was lifted from https://www.csscodelab.com/html5-bef...lider-example/.
Acorn
It has been restored considering new techniques in use today ...
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:)
oh nice one :)
@ Acorn:
How simple! Bang my head on the keyboard !!!!. In the past browsers would give a warning of https & http content being used but I never received any in this case.Quote:
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.
I was just stumped why it rendered correctly on the preview but not when published but of course this was the cause as you cleverly pointed out.
https://parkeston.com/xara2021/monalisa/mona-april.htm
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!
Might have been 1965. I was going to Art Center and took the summer off to visit with friends in NYC. And I went to the World's Fair.Quote:
I'm 77 now. Saw the Mona Lisa back at the Worlds Fair in New York in what, 1964?