Leonardo da Vinci, Italian
The Mona Lisa’s High-Maintenance Sister, the Mona Karen, ca. 1474-78
Oil on panel
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here (archive if necessary), here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Italian Wikipedia page has more).
/// Genevra has no inner life. Her
expression is that of a cipher.
With her styled golden hair
she resembles, I’d swear,
a severely depressed Michelle Pfeiffer.
/// She has just been engaged. She’s sixteen.
In Firenze a young beauty queen.
Very soon, she’ll be wed
sharing Luigi’s bed.
Can you tell— is she numb or serene?
/// Porcelain skin and a blank vacant stare
framed by one row of tightly curled hair.
Coiffure’s straight in the back
and her muscles are slack
(although then there was no Botox there).
/// To be fair, her fair face shows no guile,
or hostility, anger or bile.
And in all this great while,
still today it’s the style
to insist that all pretty girls smile.
/// So, just maybe we ought to let go.
This girl’s secrets are not ours to know.
All her thoughts are her own
and they need not be shown
to the world. (Maybe just to her beau.)
/// Mona Lisa, sung by Nat King Cole,
had expression, emotion and soul.
Love his voice; a huge fan,
but Nat wasn’t “deadpan,”
For this face, Keely Smith fit the role.
/// La Gioconda’s mysterious grace
and her smile, (which is so hard to place),
cannot ever be bested,
though this rich bitch invested
time to practice her besting rich face.