"I'm just talking about "Mona Lisa" as the treasure of the Louvre Museum, right?"

"This painting should be the most expensive painting in human history, no more?"

"When I was very young, didn't my sister watch the Guinness World Record with me?"

"Did you see it at that time? In 1962, the insurance premium of the painting "Mona Lisa" had reached 100 million US dollars."

"This is a Guinness World Record!"

"That was 1962, my sister."

"Without now, it's more than a billion dollars?"

"If this painting hadn't been the same as the one mentioned in the movie, it had a password, how could it be so expensive?"

As he talked about art well, Zong Yi focused on the premium and value of the painting.

The paintings in the museum cannot be sold casually.

Without a transaction, where is the price?

It is really hard to say whether the painting "Mona Lisa" is the most expensive painting in human history.

After explaining it for a long time with the professional logic of adults, it couldn't be explained anyway, so Meng Xinzhi had to go on a dangerous journey.

"The most fundamental reason why the painting "Mona Lisa" is particularly expensive is that Leonardo da Vinci is not a professional painter."

The words of dream heart are amazing.

"Ah?" Zong Yi opened his mouth wide, "Sister, are you kidding? Leonardo da Vinci, the leader of the three heroes of the Renaissance, isn't a professional painter?"

"Of course it's not a joke. In addition to being able to draw, Leonardo da Vinci is also a mathematician, biologist, astronomer, mechanic and anatomist... A lot of every family, painting is just one of his many hobbies, but it just happened to be passed down and is more famous."

Meng Xinzhi borrowed the application of classical scales by Zongyi and sang five "homes" in succession with Gongshangjiao Zhengyu.

"But, my sister, this can't solve the most expensive problem of "Mona Lisa"! Leonardo da Vinci is so powerful, on the other hand, does it mean that there is a password hidden in "Mona Lisa"? Otherwise, why is it so expensive?"

As it turns out.

Not only was Zong Yi not convinced, but he became more determined.

Meng Xinzhi took a deep breath and said, "I will tell you now why a painting by a non-professional painter is so expensive."

"Okay, OK, OK, sister, please tell me!"

Zong Yi supported his chin and disguised himself as a flower that longed for knowledge.

"Because Da Vinci was not a full-time painter, his understanding of painting was different from that of the painters of his time. Especially when it comes to mixing pigments, Da Vinci was very casual. I told you that sometimes when using too much pigments, Da Vinci likes to use his thumb to press the pigments flat."

"Yes, sister, you told me that the only work of Leonardo da Vinci outside Europe, "Genevra de Benci" was no longer questioned whether it was Leonardo da Vinci's own work. You also said that several of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings had fingerprints left on their thumbs, which could be confirmed by each other."

"Yes, these fingerprints can also prove from another level that Leonardo da Vinci was as he wanted when painting."

"But, my sister..."

"Don't let it go, let me explain it to you now." Meng Xinzhi used a very unique perspective, striving to pull out the meaning of the money-mindedness:

"Because Da Vinci was a scientist first."

"So his pigment mixing is more functional and scientific, as long as the color is right."

"He was not as dedicated to studying pigments as other painters of his time."

"I didn't think about making my paintings come true forever from the beginning."

"A lot of the pigments used by Leonardo da Vinci to paint are easily eroded by time."

"This means that over time, his paintings will easily change their original appearance."

"Since the Louvre Museum has collected this painting, I definitely hope that this painting will always be the original one."

“To achieve this, museums need to invest huge maintenance costs every year.”

"Once these maintenance costs are incurred, will they be superimposed on the value of this painting?"

"Didn't this cause this painting to be outstanding in its expensiveness?"

"It is precisely because this painting is so fragile that the museum needs to provide it with insurance to create the Guinness World Record."

"Is this an explanation why this painting is so expensive?"

Meng Xinzhi tried her best. If Zong Yi still couldn't be convinced, she would have to go there.

Originally, educating children is the responsibility of parents, and it is not her responsibility as a sister.

"Wow, it turns out that it is so expensive because Leonardo da Vinci uses paint indiscriminately!" Zong Yi clapped his hands and stood up, "That's right!"

"By the way?"

Meng Xinzhi became less confident, and she was not sure if she had really convinced her stubborn sister.

She can not educate her sister, but she doesn't want to take her sister into the ditch because of a movie.

"Yes, this is the same as when I was a child, I used my hands that had just had a lot of sweat to touch my favorite princess dress."

Zong Yi was both excited and regretful, and took Meng Xinzhi's hand and shook it and said, "Do you still remember sister? The purple skirt I touched became moldy in the second year."

"Uh...that's the case."

Meng Xinzhi didn't remember whether Zong Yi had touched the purple princess dress, nor did he remember if any of them had mold.

She just wants to seize every opportunity and let her sister not be deviated by the movie.

"It's so interesting. So it's so expensive. It's because Leonardo da Vinci made paints and touched them randomly!" Zong Yi turned around happily, "Hahahahahaha, this really increases the maintenance cost, just like I often increase my mother's burden."

Finally, Zong Yi’s logic became self-consistent.

I laughed out of the classical scales and went downstairs to sleep happily.

Meng Xinzhi, who has watched "The Da Vinci Code" more than a dozen times, was staring blankly on the rooftop on the fifth floor.

She doesn't believe there is really a Da Vinci password.

In Meng Xinzhi's view, the study of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings in the movie is like the study of the Dream of the Red Chamber, and has been studied a little in many details.

For example, Jia Baoyu is the emperor's illegitimate son or even the prince.

The so-called "fake treasure jade" is actually "real treasure jade".

Whether it is for the Da Vinci Code or the Dream of Red Mansions.

They all study a novel as a historical fact.

In the view of Meng Xinzhi, who is a professional cultural relics and museum, this is completely meaningless.

To tell historical facts and to believe, she only believes in the unearthed cultural relics.

History has passed, and only cultural relics can restore the truth, or, at least, part of the truth.

But, strangely.

She often has bizarre dreams.

For example, after watching "The Da Vinci Code", I dreamed of Mona Lisa.

It was Madame Lisa, not this painting.

In the dream, Madam Lisa sang to her.

Meng Xinzhi has never heard such a nice sound in real life.

For example, when I went to the Liaoning Museum to read the "Fu Picture of the Goddess of Luo River", I dreamed of the love entanglement between Cao Zhi and Luo River.

In the dream, she and Luo Shen danced on the water, exploring why there is so much love in the world that cannot be obtained.

It's very fantasy.

But everything in the dream is too real.

The reason why Da Vinci's paintings are more difficult to preserve than paintings of the same period is the answer she got when she communicated with Madame Lisa in her dream.

At that time, Meng Xinzhi was only six years old and still couldn't read.

In life, it is impossible to have access to this information.

Two years later, when I traveled abroad with my father for the first time, I went to the Louvre and went to see the "Little" Mona Lisa.

She just wanted to go and check it out, but she didn't want to get any answers.

Like most tourists, I took a quick look at the flowers and took a quick photo and prepared to leave.

But when I left, I accidentally got a piece of news from a Chinese-speaking staff member.

It is true that the maintenance cost of "Mona Lisa" is much higher than that of other paintings.

Leonardo da Vinci's pigment mixing problem is indeed one of the reasons why his legacy works are expensive to maintain.

The staff also gave special examples of "The Last Supper".

When Da Vinci was painting, he didn't like to use wet mural pigments that have been widely used since the Middle Ages.

Instead, he used his own original "organic" new pigment that mixed with eggs and milk.

The resulting many severely peeling parts of his paintings are not completely repaired at all.
To be continued...