German expert reveals true identity of Mona Lisa
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Heidelberg - A German expert has confirmed the real identity of Mona Lisa after centuries of speculation about the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait. It is Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, said Viet Probst, director of the Heidelberg University Library. Probst confirmed Friday a German television report which said the discovery was made two-and-a-half years ago by the head of the university's handwriting department. The expert discovered a reference to the Mona Lisa's identity in a hand-written reference on a document that belonged to the painting's early owner. The owner was a contemporary of da Vinci and was in regular contact with him, according to the television programme. There has been lots of speculation about who the sitter was for the portrait, which was painted in Florence between 1503-1506 and now hangs at the Louvre in Paris. Most experts believed it was the wife of del Giocondo, hence its alternative title, La Gioconda, although this was never conclusively proved.
Copyright DPA
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mona lisa
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Kyler ,
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:52:18 GMT
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see well i think the Mona Lisa painting is Leonardo da Vinci cause if you put his unfinished painting next to Mona lisa they look sorta a like but i think the unfinished one is him older and the Mona Lisa one is him a little younger. get back to me asap please
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa
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CARLO PEDRETTI ,
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:24:20 GMT
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Congratulations! As Director of the Center for Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, I should like to get in touch with the scholars invelved. Can you help? Thank you, CP
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