Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal genius, a man infinitely curious and infinitely inventive. He is considered one of the greatest painters who ever lived.
Mona Lisa, da Vinci's famous portrait of an Italian noblewoman, has been featured or spoofed in many Muppet productions and merchandise items. Jim Henson's earliest use of the Mona Lisa is in the 1965 short film Time Piece, in which the main character shoots the painting. Another frequently parodied da Vinci work is the Vitruvian Man, a diagram of a nude male figure meant to illustrate the correlations of ideal human proportions.
==References==
===Mona Lisa===
;Miss Piggy
File:Mona Piggy Muppet Annual 1980.jpg|"Mona Piggy" from Jim Henson's Muppets Annual 1980
File:Mona Lisa Muppets on Vacation.png|The Muppets on Vacation
File:Monamoi.jpg|"Mona Moi" from Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces
File:Mona Piggy MB105.png|Muppet Babies"Scooter's Hidden Talent"
File:Muppetart01monalisa.jpg|Muppet Art: 1999 Calendar
File:Mona Piggy Muppet Manners 1999.jpg|Muppet Manners
File:MWO-MonaWitcha.jpg|The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
File:MB303-Mona.png|Muppet Babies"Summer's Disaster-Piece"
File:DisneyJuniorMusic-28-ReadyForPreschool-AtTheArtMuseum-07.png|Disney Junior Music:Ready for Preschool"At the Art Museum"
;Cookie Monster
File:Cbookmonsterpieces.JPG|Great Monsterpieces coloring book
File:Monster_Lisa.jpg|"Monster Lisa" from a Sesamstrasse poster and postcard
File:Monsterartsticker.jpg|Museum of Monster Art sticker book
File:Museum of Monster Art sticker book 04.jpg|Museum of Monster Art sticker book
File:Cookie Mona-Ster.jpg|"Cookie Mona-Ster" by Timothy Gatenby for "Sesame Street: Magical Art World"@therealtimgatenby on Instagram, December 18, 2024
;Others
File:Monalisatime.jpg|Mona Lisa in Time Piece
File:Thestepsisters.jpg|Mona and Lisa from Hey Cinderella!
File:Evrythngmus-monalisa.jpg|Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum
File:S&vmonalisa.jpg|Sex and Violence
0722-MonaLisa.jpg|Sesame Street Episode 0722
File:Monalisamuppetshow.jpg|"Something's Missing"
File:Monalisa.gonzo.jpg|The Muppets comic strip (July 25, 1983)
File:Monalisa.mbcredits.jpg|Muppet Babies closing credits
File:Viewmaster-monalisa.jpg|People In Your Neighborhood View-Master set
File:Numberella Mona Lisa.jpg|Numberella
File:Book.myway13.jpg|On My Way with Sesame Street Volume 13
File:Monatelly.jpg|"Sing Your Synonyms"
File:1374-Mona.jpg|Sesame Street episodes 1374
File:Grouch-monalisa.jpg|Sesame Street Episode 1452
File:PforPainting.jpg|Sesame Street cartoon 
File:1454-Drawings.jpg|Sesame Street cartoon 
File:2446e2.jpg|Sesame Street Episode 2446
File:2789f.jpg|"Moaning Lisa" in Sesame Street Episode 2597
File:3058 Mona Lisa.jpg|Sesame Street Episode 3058
File:Elmo.monalisa.jpg|"Right in the Middle of My Face"
File:Bigbagmonalisa.jpg|Big Bag episode "Birthday Bash"
File:Groana Lisa.jpg|"Groana Lisa" in Elmo Says BOO!
File:Moaning Lisa SSmag April 2001.jpg|"Moaning Lisa" in the April 2001 issue of Sesame Street Magazine
File:Beaker-MonaLisa.jpg|MuppetToons"The Stream"
File:Mathieu.smileconnectsus.jpg|Thanks & Giving All Year Long
File:MonaChicken.jpg|Big Bird's nest in Season 37
File:450b.jpg|Plaza Sésamo Episodio 845
File:MonaLisa-Beginnings.jpg|Beginning Together
File:TCT-mona.jpg|The Cookie Thief
File:all aboard mona lisa 4.jpg|All Aboard!
File:abby-monalisa.jpg|Word of the Day: Artist
File:mona abby.jpg|A spoof of the Google fine art app of Abby and her look-alike painting by "Leonardo da Muppet."
File:Mona Lisa - Animal Fly Airplane.png|Muppet Babies episode"Animal Fly Airplane"
File:MuppetBabies-(2018)-S02E01-TheFroginizer-MonaLisa.png|Muppet Babies episode"The Froginizer"
File:MB2018-107 Mona Lisa.jpg|Muppet Babies episode"You Ought to Be in Pictures"
File:MuppetBabies-(2018)-S02E09-MonaGonzo.png|Muppet Babies episode"Beaker 2.0"
File:NTL-GroverLisa.jpg|The Not-Too-Late ShowEpisode 213
===The Vitruvian Man===
File:Vitruvianfrog.jpg|1979 exhibit and Fan Club newsletter
File:Muppet Style Guide.png|Style Guide cover and postcard
File:Shirt5.JPG|2005 celebrity design t-shirt
File:VetruvianGBMan.jpg|The Cookie Thief
File:SG-Banana.png|Super Grover 2.0: Fruit, A Still Life 
File:DaVincElmo.jpg|A spoof of the Google fine art app of Elmo and his look-alike painting by "Leonardo da Muppet" as posted on Sesame Street's Facebook page, Jan 23, 2018
===Other references===
* Baby Kermit tells the story of his ancestor, Leonardo da Frog, in the Muppet Babies episode "Scooter's Hidden Talent". He designs the world's first helicopter and pilots it around "somewhere in Italy" looking for a subject to paint (causing the tilt in the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the process). He ultimately finds Mona Piggy who convinces him to make her the most famous painting in history.
* Da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci appears in the Muppet Babies episode "The Muppet Museum of Art". During the "Art Is in Your Heart" montage, it takes a pair of binoculars away from its face.
* The Last Supper appears on the wall in the Fiama home in episode 212 of Muppets Tonight.
* When Clifford needs a guest star in the Muppets Tonight episode "The Cameo Show", he says they need to find someone "with the wisdom of Solomon, the vision of da Vinci and the brilliance of Einstein."
* In his book Before You Leap, Kermit again talks about his ancestors, including Leonardo Da Frog, "who first gained fame as an artist and inventor before really hitting it big selling cheap decoder rings to gullible tourists."
* The Cookie Thief features various cookie-related spoofs of the artist and his works. Leonardo da Crunchy, famous cookie artist, is shown to have painted Self-Portrait, Lady With Cookie, Vitruvian Gingerbread Man and the most famous piece of cookie art - the Muncha Lisa.
* An animated Animal portrays Leonardo da Vinci during a "Muppet Labs Field Test" segment in the Muppets Now episode "Sleep Mode."
File:Leo Selfie.jpg|Self Portrait
File:LadyWithCookie.jpg|Lady with Cookie
==Notes==
*His name was also borrowed for Leonardo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the eponymous Creature Shop film and its sequel.
==Sources==
==External links==
*Mona Lisa Mania
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