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The painting's fame rests on Leonardo's innovations, its ambiguous expression, and above all a 1911 theft that made it a media sensation, followed by mass reproduction and tourism.
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A critic mocked Monet's 1874 painting Impression, Sunrise as a mere 'impression'. The insult stuck, and the painters later adopted it for themselves.
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Michelangelo painted in buon fresco, laying pigment into wet plaster one day's patch at a time, from his own scaffold, using full-size cartoons transferred to the wall.
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Linear perspective, developed in early 15th-century Florence, let painters build convincing three-dimensional space on a flat surface, though many artists used it loosely.
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