Who was Mona Lisa?

by Barbora Misakova

Probably the best known and precious portrait in the world is Mona Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci. There is innumerable number of stories and legends linked to this portrait and most of them wanted to reveal who was Mona Lisa in real, what was her relationship with Leonardo or wasn't Mona Lisa Leonardo by himself? All of these efforts always lead to its beginning and most of people just believe in some kind of mystery connected with this painting. There were theories which tell that Mona Lisa was in real an ignored daughter of Leonardo da Vinci, Isabella d'Este, friend of Leonardo's, Beatrice from Dante's Divine comedy, or even that original painting was the painting of Jesus. I could continue writing about theories, but there is plenty of web pages related to this topic on the Internet and "Mona Lisa" is probably the most looked up collocation. All questions related to Mona Lisa's identity were answered by Dr. Armin Schlechter, a manuscript expert from Heidelberg University library. They got to the book which used to belong to da Vinci himself, where are also little notes in the margins where was confirmed that Mona Lisa was in real Lisa del Giocondo. These notes were written by Leonardo's acquaintance & Agostino Vespucci who also wrote that da Vinci was in that time working on two others paintings.Why was such important discovery made so late? As the library said, there were only insufficient evidence from 16th century, because only few documents were available and they also left lots of space for different interpretations and "legends".Nowadays there are no doubts about identity of Mona Lisa. Her real maiden name was Lisa Gherardini and she was wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Another evidence of veracity of this discovery was also the name of this painting & La gioconda.Although this new and probably true discovery was made, it will probably never stop all these never ending and still appearing theories about identity Mona Lisa and about her mysterious smile. People just need mysteries in their lives and it looks like permanent searching for true was better than the truth itself.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/ts_nm/germany_mona_lisa_dc;_ylt=AvdGPhQCtb1nVhtAsy.9SBSs0NUE

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