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So, what do we know about Lisa? First, we know she was a real person born in Florence in 1479 to the Gherardini family. Lisa’s baptismal record survives today in the cathedral archives. In the 15th century, Florentine families brought their newborns to be baptized under the glistening, mosaic-encrusted dome of the Baptistery of San Giovanni. Intere...
Lisa grew up in the Oltrarno district, where her family rented a series of rundown houses, including one on the still-gloomy Via Sguazza. By the time of Lisa’s birth, her father owned a few tenant farms in the Chianti region. Unfortunately, these were burned and ransacked during the French invasions that plagued the Italian peninsula over the cours...
Although we don’t know the circumstances of Lisa’s engagement, she married Francesco del Giocondo, a prosperous cloth merchant nearly twice her age, in 1495. The couple moved across the Arno to a fine house, which still stands in a much-altered state, at 23 via della Stufa. It seems that Francesco had already lost one, perhaps two, wives in childbi...
In 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, aged 51, returned to Florence after spending nearly fifteen years away at the court of Milan. Upon his return, he didn’t have any commissions. At that time, the great cathedral was partially complete. Michelangelo Buonarotti was busy working on his Davidin the cathedral work yard. Leonardo’s father was involved in the mo...
At the turn of the 16th century, Florence boasted a variety of pharmacies, mostly run by monasteries and convents across the city. A historical ledger from Sant’Orsola states that Lisa purchased a vial of distilled snail water, which was commonly used for skincare and to aid digestion. Today, the surviving medieval pharmacy, the Officina Profumo Fa...
Lisa spent her widowed years at Sant’Orsola, a convent near her home where her daughter was a cloistered nun. According to historical documents, Lisa was buried at Sant’Orsola, while her husband and sons were interred in the family tomb at Santissima Annunziata. In recent years, a search began for the human remains of Lisa Gherardini herself, with ...
Even though we know a considerable amount about Lisa, we know little about the circumstances of her portrait’s creation. There is no surviving tax record, dowry or estate inventory, or contract with the artist. In fact, we have no evidence that this portrait was delivered to Francesco or Lisa at all. Instead, Leonardo da Vinci himself seems to have...
Nov 24, 2017 · Their sound is unique in today’s music landscape but bears a striking resemblance to the sounds of perhaps the most influential decade of our past, the 1960s.
- Tara Low
Sep 15, 2024 · Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the work a source of ongoing investigation and fascination. Read more about the painting’s subject and history.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Lisa was born in Florence.
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The Mona Lisa (/ ˌmoʊnə ˈliːsə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: Gioconda [dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: Joconde [ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.