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Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film starring Julia Roberts as a progressive art history teacher at Wellesley College in 1953. The film explores her impact on her students' lives and challenges the traditional expectations of women in the 1950s.
Oct 6, 2017 · The Mona Lisa’s smile came not from some divine intervention. Instead, it was the product of years of painstaking and studied human effort involving applied science as well as artistic skill.
Aug 27, 2017 · Mona Lisa was famously unable to conjure up a fully joyous smile for Leonardo da Vinci. Perhaps that’s because she was married off to a slave trader at the age of 15.
The real-life scandal and shame behind Mona Lisa’s smile. MONA LISA was famously unable to conjure up a fully joyous smile for Leonardo da Vinci. A new paper has revealed the apparent reason why.
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Apr 26, 2014 · Learn about the theories and clues behind the identity and expression of the world's most famous portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci. Find out who may be the real Mona Lisa, how her smile was created, and why it fascinates us.
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May 6, 2022 · A blog post that analyzes the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile, which depicts a fictional story of a liberal art history professor at Wellesley College in the 1950s. The post explores how the film reflects and challenges the post-war expectations of femininity and domesticity, and how it influenced the public perception of Wellesley.
Dec 19, 2023 · While Mona Lisa Smile’s depiction of a quaint liberal arts college stuck in its traditional ways may make for a good story, it’s not exactly reality. Many students and faculty at the real Wellesley College took issue with the movie after its release, accusing it of being historically inaccurate and giving the school a bad name.
