Question

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

According to Aristotle all existing things go from potential to actual. For this painting write a paragraph explaining:

What is the primary substance? What is the secondary substance? How does the painting move from potential to actual. What are the four causes and what are the four causes for this painting?

Answer 1

Potentiality, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have. Aristotle did not consider all possibilities the same, and emphasized the importance of those that become real of their own accord when conditions are right and nothing stops them. Actuality, in contrast to potentiality, is the motion, change or activity that represents an exercise or fulfillment of a possibility, when a possibility becomes real in the fullest sense.

The famous painting has created a lot of buzz over the years. whether it is because of the lady-in-the-painting's smile or that it was stolen and hidden away for 2 years. The painting has always been in Louvre Museum since its ressurection from Napolean Bonaparte's palace. It had been topic of discussion, in here potentiality, since the time Leonardo Da Vinci made it and presented it to King Francis I of France. The painting was on display after French Revolution but no one took much notice to it because of many other paintings of famous painter's such s- Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo and Raphael.

But after it was stolen from the Museum its Actuality came to existence when it was displayed i news and people were faciated by the women, her clother, eye and the famous smile. The painting now hosts millions of visitors every year with her smile in Louvre Museum under a bulletproof glass.