Are you in love with the most beautiful woman in the world? If you are, then do go and give reverence at her grave. It is believed to be the convent of Sant’Orsola, just 900 feet away from the house of the artist’s father.
She has been identified by historian, Giuseppe Pallanti as Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the wealthy Florentine silk merchant, Francesco del Giocondo.
Carlo Pedretti, director of the Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles is quoted to have said:
It will be important to find Lisa’s remains. Since modern technologies allow to reconstruct the facial features, it will be possible to see if her face matches that portrayed by Leonardo
Considered as one of Leonardo da Vinci best works the enigmatic tantalizing smile of Mona Lisa has enthralled all for years. Numerous stories fueled by colorful imagination have called her from being of noble birth to being a prostitute. Now we can finally dis cover who she really was.
Via: Discovery
