Mona Lisa Images for a Modern World

Potential Forthcoming Topics:
(Suggestions and examples are welcome.)
The Standing Mona Lisa
The Pantheon of Art: Mona Lisa and her Female Companions

To the Reader

The following survey and discussion of "monalisiana" is presented for the delight, amusement and perhaps the edification of those who are interested in the infusion of the "high arts" into popular culture and for those who are curious about the expanding variety of kitsch and related images of the Mona Lisa. Begun in November 1997, this "paper" is under constant revision, and is edited and augmented at irregular intervals. People who wish to follow the course of this project may wish to check in to see what is new every three or four months. At this moment, no record of previous versions is being maintained. This means that anyone wishing to cite this paper is best advised to keep reference copies of the version they have cited. However it is possible to find out what new works have been added since your last visit. New works are generally added sequentially to the list at the end of the text and are dated. This list documents the chronological sequence of additions and contains links to the relevant portions of the text for each image. Changes made to the text portions alone are not documented, except by the dated links at the head of this page. Suggestions on how best to document the evolving text are welcome. Please send these to the author. This paper is © by Robert A. Baron, 1997-2002. Underlying objects and images should be considered as copyrighted by their makers or publishers; they appear here under claim of fair use as defined by U.S.Copyright code, section 107.

During April 2002 much of this site was re-set, with the addition of images integrated into the text. Most of these pictures are hot-linked to the full-page illustration sets. These often contain useful comparisons and study topics that include images not discussed in the main text, plus discussions on short topics -- such as the pregnant Mona Lisa.. The way hot-links work has been changed too. Now, when you are in the text portion (filenames: MONASV*.htm) the first time you click on a hot picture or a hypertext element a new browser window will open. Unless you close it, that window will stay open and will receive the contents of every linked request. The original window will remain open with your text and will keep your place. From the second window, you can browse through additional images and check on cited texts, but the original window will keep your place in the reading. If you see errors in how this operates, the fault is mine. Tell me about it. /rb

Acknowledgements:
Jean-Pierre Cauvin, Professor of French, University of Texas (7/27/98) for the correct French text for the acronym LHOOQ.
Nancy Mellerski, Profesor of French, Dickenson College, Pennsylvania (6/2000) for her insightful translation from the Turkish.
Christine L. Sundt, Curator, Arts and Architecure Visual Resources Library, University of Oregon, Eugene, for finding everything Mona and (with Helene Roberts, who also provided the bamboo curtain) for publishing a paper based on these materials in Visual Resources. Paul Baron and Susan Hill, Providence, RI, for collection aids and boosterism.
Carl and Carol Selkin, Pasadena, CA, for clipping services and good humor and unflagging enthusiasm. Plus, top-notch editing.

	file requests	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Pageviews
LUNAR PAGES as Host
2009	file with max requests / month max html file requests total: Mona site	Dali2.jpg 9,708 MONA14.htm 2,936 197,376	Dali2.jpg 17,207 MONA14.htm 5,270 364,641	Dali2.jpg 27,298 MONA14.htm 8721 551,443	Dali2.jpg 38,291 MONA14.htm 11,895 714,963	Dali2.jpg 57,489 MONA14.htm 15,458 889,652	Dali2.jpg 62,802 MONA14.htm 17,835 1,012,780	Dali2.jpg 66,295 MONA14.htm 19,320 1,118,116	Dali2.jpg 69,944 MONA14.htm 21,036 1,221,988	Dali2.jpg 75,745 MONA14.htm 23,494 1,355,257	Dali2.jpg 82,901 MONA14.htm 26,649 1,493,508	Dali2.jpg 89,634 MONA14.htm 29,579 1,641,618	Dali2.jpg 95,747 MONA14.htm 32,196 1,773,628	12,335,570
2008	file with max requests / month max html file requests total Mona site											December statistics are partial	ASCII-Mona.gif 1,542 MONA14.htm 330 T=20,625
EARTHLINK as Host from 2003 on, all hits are uncached. Red figures indicate new monthly highs.
	page views per month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2008	page with max p/v per month total: Mona site	MONA14.htm 3,582 37,789	MONA43.htm 4,834 41.994	MONA43.htm 5,446 45,318	MONA14.htm 5,527 47,239	MONA43.htm 4,765 43,000	MONA14.htm 3,217 32,172	MONA14.htm 2,089 26,965	MONASV12.htm 1800 22,825	MONA14.htm 2606 27,805	MONA14.htm 4285 32,735	not collected	not collected
2007	page with max p/v per month total: Mona site	MONA41.htm 20,915 68,217	MONA41.htm 10,993 50,098	MONASV12.htm 2,966 39,946	MONASV12.htm 3,268 46,741	MONA39Th.htm 3,966 44,483	MONA14.htm 3,414 37,198	MONA39Th.htm 2,016 32,404	MONA14.htm 3,070 33,477	MONA14.htm 3,505 38,221	MONA14.htm 4062 43,654	MONASV12.htm 3542 38,960	MONASV12.htm 2455 29,674	MONA41.htm 41,615 502,073
2006	home page total: Mona site	8,107 70,324	7,791 77,397	8,926 89,940	8,978 85591	13,219 117,734	5,186 62,853	3,418 43,278	3,331 42,575	3,869 59,287	4,259 64,831	4,105 65,811	2,290 51,313	74,109 826,934
2005	home page total: Mona site	9,542 60,359	11,868 62,053	12,394 67,355	12,517 67,144	10,587 59,591	6,926 49,158	5,931 42,128	6,782 50,542	8,873 66,513	8,866 64,436	8,497 66,947	7,668 62,274	718,500
2004	home page total: Mona site	11,951 57,305	12,286 61,069	11,879 64,768	10,515 58,767	9,546 55,842	7,610 42,273	6.929 39,719	6,870 41,304	8,298 57,692	8,177 56,405	7,377 55,764	5,773 48,827	107,211 636,735
2003	home page total: Mona site	13,885 64,781	15,648 63,874	20,262 71,573	17,668 64,490	19,595 72,005	12,168 48,662	7,967 34,159	7,375 32,014	11,434 50,893	10,944 53,163	10,788 48,840	9,816 44312	157.530 648,755
Statistics record both cached and uncached hits.Red figures indicate new monthly highs.
2002	cached uncached	13928 8826	13920 7981	10086 6828	----- 8457	------ 10305	----- 6014	----- 5086	----- 6070	------ 10381	------- 9347	------- 7820	----- 9149	467,403
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2000	cached uncached										3949	3735 3566	2922 2505

These Pages for Academics and Students Education
( list under construction -- not yet edited )

		Main Contents:
	I.	Monalisiana Text
	II.	Analysis of Sources
	III.	Study Pages
	IV.	List of Monalisiana Images
	V.	Mona Lisa Links Page
	VI.	Readers' Comments
Table of Contents	VII.	Exhibitor's Gallery	Table of Images
	VIII.	Teacher's Guide
	IX.	Usage Data
	X.	Monalisiana News and Events
		To the Reader
		Awards
		Links to additions
		Forthcoming topics
		Usage Data
		Imitation is flattery
		Et in Academia ego

Additions
10/01/03
05/22/01	05/29/01	08/26/01	08/28/01	04/16/02	04/16/02	12/16/02	12/26/02	12/26/02	06/26/03
03/05/00	03/06/00	03/09/00	09/15/00	09/28/00	11/25/00	11/29/00	11/29/00	12/04/00	05/10/01
01/08/99	02/12/99	07/01/99	08/27/99	08/31/99	10/24/99	10/24/99	03/04/00	03/04/00	03/04/00

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2002	4434	4212	bad data	1960	2494	4264	3430	4184	6970	7967	7788	6315
2001	3049	2603	2984	3688	4353	1776	1829	2078	4188	4831	5062	3798
2000	2218	2163	3043	2856	4033	2360	1739	*3175	4188p* 1469s+	3052	2053	2063
1999	417	598	397	587	828	827	336	332	624	966	1718	1817
1998	099	071	129	161	176	276	420	291	352	805	654	349
1997											016	017