Ξ96 Ether 9 hr 59 min ago /Yq6BFUWyMI- EtherRock Price August 12, 2021 People are paying more than $200k for EtherRocks:Ĭurrent #EtherRock Price Floor: Ξ69 Ether ($216,453) There are 10,000 unique pixelated characters, each stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Take a look at the largest sales of Crypto Punks: People either love them or loathe them with no middle ground. That’s how people view the world in the age of the internet. It has to be either live up to the hype or be a complete disappointment. The funny thing about the Mona Lisa is everyone who sees it comes away either in awe or let down. How many uber-rich people would buy it if they could just to prove how rich they are? How much would it be worth to say you own the most famous painting on the planet? The Mona Lisa was painted more than 500 years ago yet it’s only truly been known as one of the greatest paintings in the world for 20% of its existence.
Lines of people gathered to see the painting that was stolen. When it was finally returned to the Louvre, the Mona Lisa became the most famous painting in the world, basically overnight. No one knew where it was for two years until someone tried to sell it on the black market. It took more than a day for anyone to realize it was missing. When it was stolen it wasn’t even the most famous painting in the wing it resided, let alone the Louvre. The Mona Lisa is smaller than you’d expect, so the next morning he walked out with it hidden under his shirt and no one was the wiser. In 1911, a handyman who worked at the Louvre hid in a supply closet overnight. It would take more than 400 years for it to become the most famous painting in the world. The Mona Lisa failed to make the list.īy the 1850s, artists like Raphael and Titian had works worth almost ten times as much as the Mona Lisa. In 1750, art experts in France ranked the top 100 paintings in the world. More than 300 years later it wasn’t even considered one of da Vinci’s best paintings, let alone one of the best paintings in the world. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in 1507. Here's a link to a NOVA program on the Mona Lisa that features this idea, starting around minute 38.The Path of the Mona Lisa, Pop Culture & NFTs The fact that the degree of her smile varies so much with gaze angle makes her expression dynamic, and the fact that her smile vanishes when you look directly at it, makes it seem elusive. But when you look directly at her mouth, it looks more like the panel on the right, and her smile seems to vanish. So when you look at her eyes or the background, you see a smile like the one on the left, or in the middle, and you think she is smiling. These three images show her face filtered to show selectively lowest (left) low (middle) and high (right) spatial frequencies. The elusive quality of the Mona Lisa's smile can be explained by the fact that her smile is almost entirely in low spatial frequencies, and so is seen best by your peripheral vision ( Science, 290, 1299). The separate processing of color and form information has a parallel in artists' idea that color and luminance play very different roles in art ( Livingstone, Vision and Art, Abrams Press, 2002). A side interest in the lab is to use what we know about vision to understand some of the discoveries artists have made about how we see.