Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa painting was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting is considered archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. It is a famous painting, most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 14th or 15th, 1452 in Florence, Italy, and died on May 2nd, 1519, in Clos Lucé, Amboise, Kingdom of France. Leonardo was known for painting, drawing, sculpting, science, engineering, architecture and anatomy. Many historians and scholars considered Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the “Renaissance Man”. He is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
American Gothic during the Great Depression
The American Gothic painting was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. The couple were farmers during the “Great Depression”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
Grant Wood
Grant DeVolson Wood was born on February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa and died on February 12, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa. Grant Wood was an American painter who was known for painting the rural American Midwest and who painted the “American Gothic” painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood
Earth and Sky painting
The Earth and Sky during the Great Depression was painted by Paul Raphael Meltsner. This painting helps depict that Labor Day was founded during the Great Depression after World War I.
https://www.unionplus.org/page/labor-day-history
Paul Raphael Meltsner
Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in 1905 in New York, NY and died in 1966 in Woodstock, NY. He was an American artist who was widely recognized for his Works Progress Administration (WPA) era paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Meltsner
Departure of the Joads
https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/great-depression.html
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton was born on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, MO and died on January 19, 1975 in Kansas City, MO. Thomas was an American painter and muralist. He was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry.
Agnes' Blog 
I liked the paintings that you have chosen from the Early Modern Era. I would also agree that the Mona Lisa is the most talked-about painting because it was painted so long ago, yet so many of us still talk about it today.
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