Mona Lisa del Giocondo - Heidelberger Fund clarifies identity

The dating of Leonardo's most famous paintings, and the identification of the depicted with Lisa del Giocondo by the discovery of a handwritten entry in an early pressure from the Heidelberg University Library.

Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of a young woman, is regarded as the most famous paintings in the world.

The identification is depicted with the Mona Lisa, the wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, based on her age of the information by Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), in its 1550 first published Künstlerviten than previously only source of the portrait of a name There, while an approximate dating between 1503 and 1506. It is this identification some 50 years younger than her subject. Because Vasari also for his penchant for Anekdotischen know, existed until now doubts about the reliability of its information. Because Leonardo himself mentioned the Mona Lisa in his drawings and notebooks with no word.

Sparse information in other sources from the years 1517, 1525 and 1540 can be great leeway for interpretation, so that different versions of the identification exist. One possibility under discussion is the representation of a fictitious Frauenbildnisses, one of Leonardo in the picture put women's ideal.

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German expert reveals true identity of Mona Lisa

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.
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