{"id":387,"date":"2009-11-06T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/index.php\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-11-06T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T04:50:10","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci-visits-monica-ros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Da Vinci visits Monica Ros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Renaissance week, Oct 8th, 2009 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monicaros.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Ros School<\/a> in Ojai&#8230;. <\/strong>&#8220;Excusee?!&#8221; Are youa da Lisa? Youa very beautiful&#8221; &#8220;No!!&#8221;, &#8220;Shes ova dere&#8221;! &#8220;Oh no, dats a photo, I need da real livin Mona Lisa, in da breathin flesh&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-388 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_9431.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;MaMa Mia!!<\/strong> Ver isda Mona Lisa? Hava yua see her?&#8221; \u00a0 &#8220;Noa!!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Dis isa verry bigga dilema&#8230;I musta findher toa paint her portrait&#8230;if youa see her, pleasea, sendha toa me. OK? Graze&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-390 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_9419.jpg\" alt=\"Where is Mona Lisa?\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And so, Leonardo searched the play yard asking all the queens, knights, peasants, philosphers, scientists, bakers, hat makers, etc&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/leonardo-da-vinci.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9422\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" class=\"attachment wp-att-410 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Searched the classrooms and begged for assistance to paint the Mona Lisa on the hand ball court wall in an afternoon and if he didn&#8217;t find her, he just might have to do a painting of himself&#8230;. <strong>Oh my goodness, <\/strong>9 years to paint the Mona Lisa and at Monica Ros, to do it in an afternoon would take a <strong>miracle.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-389 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"Painting Mona Lisa\" width=\"412\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>And a miracle it was<\/strong>&#8230; The children poised to be the Mona Lisa and they were fascinated.  Everyone worked very fast, like little bees on honey with their little brushes&#8230;. Smocks on gowns and armor, there were so many assistants at times, Leonardo had to stay in the wings to oversee.  <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-393 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/maddy-ruby.jpg\" alt=\"maddy-ruby\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><br \/>\nHe noticed how the children painted with their wrests &amp; taught them how to paint from their legs, using their entire bodies to make energetic strokes!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-394 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mona-lisa-monica-ros-siena-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"mona-lisa-monica-ros-siena-portrait\" width=\"415\" height=\"552\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Bravo!! They were &amp; are magnificent!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renaissance week, Oct 8th, 2009 at Monica Ros School in Ojai&#8230;. &#8220;Excusee?!&#8221; Are youa da Lisa? Youa very beautiful&#8221; &#8220;No!!&#8221;, &#8220;Shes ova dere&#8221;! &#8220;Oh no, dats a photo, I need da real livin Mona Lisa, in da breathin flesh&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;MaMa Mia!! Ver isda Mona Lisa? 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