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Mona Lisa revealed?
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/05/26 - 00:18.
1401 CE to 1500 CE | Fine Arts | Italian | Telegraph
The discovery of some archival documents may have solved the mystery of the identity of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The woman may have had humble origins and lived a few hundred feet from the Ponte Vecchio.
In his book Mona Lisa's Story, historian Giuseppe Pallanti writes that the model was a minor noble named Lisa Gherardini, married a wealthy Florentine silk merchant, Francesco del Giocondo and was born in 1479. |
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