A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...
If Mona Lisa del Giocondo had had any idea of the lengths to which critics would go in trying to explain her enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci’s famed portrait, she might have split her sides ...
In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a well-to-do Florentine silk merchant, a commission from 14 years earlier. At the time, she had been 24 years old ...
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history. "I'm kinda like a prettier Jesus," Lisa del ...
The “Mona Lisa” was commissioned by Francesco del Giocondo and is believed to be his wife Lisa del Giocondo. There are several beliefs about how it ended up in France from being part of the ...
Born into a poor family from a small Italian Alpine village, Vincenzo Peruggia moves to Paris at the age of 20, in search of a better life. Once in Paris, Vincenzo starts work as a house painter.