Sometimes you can experience strong emotions or feel real fear just by looking at a painting. And this is understandable, because the artist puts a certain energy into his work. And the more talented the artist, the more power he can transfer to his creation.
Isleworth Mona Lisa
90% of the Louvre's visitors come there just to look at the most mysterious picture in the world - the legendary Mona Lisa. Until now, there are many unsolved mysteries of the picture. In addition, it is known to contribute to the onset of Stendhal's syndrome. This is a disorder in which a person perceives works of art very sharply: disorienting in space, people are literally transported inside the picture. What can be seen on the other side of the "La Gioconda" is unknown, but the facts speak for themselves: it drove visitors to both aggression and suicide.
But few people know that there is another version of "La Gioconda" - "Isleworth Mona Lisa", which probably belonged to the brush of the same Leonardo da Vinci and was painted years earlier. Or she did represent the original of the painting, and the well-known version was painted by Leonardo 20 years later in his workshop. This painting was found more than a century ago in a private collection, but now it is presented in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Perhaps someday this particular picture will help decipher all the secrets of the famous "La Gioconda".
Postal stagecoach
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This painting was painted by the artist Laura P. from a photograph. Moreover, the author of the photo, James Kidd, claims that he did not shoot any person standing to the left of the stagecoach. It suddenly appeared during the development of the photograph (you can see the original photograph here).
The artist hung the completed work in the office, but she was asked to immediately take the canvas from there. It was with the appearance of the picture that a poltergeist seemed to start up in the room, and she herself always hung crookedly, despite the fact that she was corrected every time. Then the story was repeated in other houses that "sheltered" the picture. In the end, she had to be burned.
Crying boy
There is a whole series of paintings of crying children by the Italian artist Bruno Amadio. These are portraits of 65 orphans, which the artist sold to tourists after World War II.
The most famous painting in this series is The Crying Boy, which is officially cursed in several regions of England. According to legend, the author of the canvas lit a match in front of the posing boy to make him cry. Since then, reproductions of this painting have been featured in 50 fires throughout England.
Venus with a mirror
Diego Velazquez's painting "Venus with a Mirror" is itself a mystery: art critics are at a loss as to why the reflection of the face of such a beautiful and young goddess is drawn rather old. And why is this the wrong perspective? What did the author mean?
In addition to these secrets, the painting is also credited with mystical power. It so happened that all its owners were pursued by misfortunes: ruin, fires and robberies. Wherever she was, they tried to get rid of her immediately. At the beginning of the 20th century, the painting ended up in the National Gallery of London, seemingly finding solace. But in 1914, a British women's rights activist stabbed her five times with a cleaver, tearing apart the beautiful Venus. Nothing strange happened to the painting.
Rain woman
The painting "Rain Woman", painted by the Vinnytsia artist Svetlana Taurus, also makes an extremely strange impression. The artist admits that she painted the picture in just 5 hours, and at the same time it was as if someone was leading her hand. All buyers of the canvas returned it back, complaining of insomnia, anxiety and the feeling that someone was constantly watching them.
Portrait of the Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez
If you are writing a ghost novel, you should definitely visit the Galves Hotel in Galveston, TX, USA. Guests often complain about the portrait of the Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, whose gaze, they claim, closely follows them along the corridor and stairs. At the same time, many do not leave the feeling that the general follows them and after - he is depicted so vividly. The most amazing thing is that this picture cannot be photographed. The picture on the camera usually comes out with spots, overexposed or distorted.
In general, there are many mysterious rumors and legends about this hotel.
Hands resist him
Artist Bill Stoneham claims that he painted the picture from his childhood photograph. The doll that stands next to him acts here as a guide to the world of dreams, which is located outside the door. But into the world of what dreams …
Unpleasant stories happened in the family already one of its first owners. The family who bought the painting hung it in the nursery. As a result, the little daughter began crying every night to the parents' bedroom and shouting that the children in the picture were fighting. Subsequent owners of the painting also complained about strange circumstances, poor health and terrible transformations of the picture. You really won't look calmly at her for more than a minute.
