THE GIOCONDA

THE GIOCONDA It is an oil on a poplar board that measures 77 x 53 cm, painted between 1503 and 1519. The fame of this painting is not based only on the technique used (known with the Italian term "sfumato") or in its beauty, also if the mysteries that it... More

THE GIOCONDA
It is an oil on a poplar board that measures 77 x 53 cm, painted
between 1503 and 1519. The fame of this painting is not based
only on the technique used (known with the Italian term
"sfumato") or in its beauty, also if the mysteries that it has.
Also known as the Mona Lisa, is a work of the Italian painter
Leonardo da Vinci. Acquired by the King Francis I of France in
the early sixteenth century, since the French State has it, and
now is at the Louvre Museum, Paris. His fame is probably made
of the many literary references, of assumptions about the
identity of the protagonist, and the spectacular theft of the 21
of August in 1911.
WHO IS THE MODEL?
Is Francesco Bartolomeo's of Giocondo wife, who was named
Lisa Gherardini, these is because the other name of the
painting is: Mona (lady, old Italian) Lisa.
The model could be a neighbor of Leonardo, who could know
their descendants, and the model could have been pregnant.
LEONARDO
DA VINCI
MONA
LISA Less