Is the most famous most expensive and most mysterious painting in the world. Each year millions of people visit the portrayed in the louvre. The mona lisa has remained a star among works of art for centuries. Because fanatics attempted to destroy the painting it can only be admired from behind armored glass. But what makes the mona lisa so special. The small painting shows nothing more than a portrait of a woman. Or does it reveal something more. It was painted by one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived Leonardo Da Vinci. And with mona lisa he left behind more than just an image of a woman. Gaze appears to wander off yet always meets the viewer. 2 she wears no jewelry her clothing is dark as if she were in mourning and yet she smiles mysteriously. Leonardo didnt leave behind any sketches of the portrait. 2 no visible brushstrokes mona lisa appears to be made out of flesh and blood. Yet her biggest secret remains who was shooting whose portrait is leonardo showing us. Well to solve this puzzle the louvre placed his most famous painting under scientific scrutiny using the most modern techniques. The painting was examined using x. Rays mammals spectroscopy ultraviolet an infrared pictures among other techniques to uncover its secrets. The monsters painting technique was examined beyond the surface work or actions made to the painting was anything over painted did leonardo paint the piece in one session or did he work on it for decades. These questions must be answered in order to resolve the most puzzling question of them all. Who is the woman behind the smiling yet melancholy face. Who was leonardos mona lisa. Or is this not a portrait. But rather an imaginary image of an ideal beauty. Experts have been wondering this for centuries. There seems to be proof of only 2 explanations but each cancels the other out documentation comes from 2 different chroniclers but these written records are not compatible with one another. The most accepted theory is based on biography george over sorry according to him the portrait depicts lease a condo the wife of the florentine silk merchant francesco doubt a condo or commission the piece in 1503. This contradicts a notify the chronicle antonio to be artists from 1517 in which Leonardo Da Vinci claims to have been commissioned by giuliani dimity. Just like the 2 chronicles contemporary leonardo scholars also have divergent theories. People anti an artist dorian from florence believes the officially recognized theory that the painting depicts lisa condo. I believe that play an audio actually painted get our d. N. A. The wife of francesco del joconde. Probably around 1503. 00. 23 roman historian robert perry considers a new and revolutionary theory in which the portrayed woman is an entirely different person. I think the painting is connected with grand army. It has nothing to do with morris or with. The 1st clue leads to florence the majority of the great renee songs artists lived and worked here as did Leonardo Da Vinci. Ga over sorry also worked in florence you chronicled the biographies of many italian artists. Next to his work as an architect but sorry documented the biographies of great italian artists today these make up one of the most important foundations of art history levitated a pure chill leonti. Tory italian e was 1st published in 1550 and revised in 1568. Today the original manuscripts are housed in the if its the library. Most of the artists whose lives were sorry chronicle were already dead at the time of the sari researched very carefully. So too with Leonardo Da Vinci on just a few pages for sammy wrote down his whole life story. In it he also mentions that little nod a pain to the portrait of mona lisa for francesco dojo condo husband and its in the possession of king francis the 1st to france. He labored on it for 4 years. And ultimately left it unfinished. These words gave the painting its name. Mona lisa. Who was this mona lisa of whom are sorry route and who was her husband francesco down to come down. Francesco was a stock much good acquired some wealth but wasnt part of florences elite. He was a nouveau riche businessman. Was it really possible the renowned painter like leonardo accepted a commission by an ordinary businessman or did francesco down to conduct and his wife climbed the ranks of society. Out of interest were going to francesco del ger condo was well known in the city seem pushy medically was nice just an ordinary a merchant he was also a public and charismatic figure who mom had it up not a live ensemble because. These a doctrine you lisa was very young and for saudi to find so very beautiful to see what i mean to marry her husband also spoke very highly often and it does that mean that in his testaments francesco refers to her as a bone a feat a woman if you should move in this is an unusual description for women carrying those who are only i have yet to find a similar description in other testaments. The more you read on a bona fide a woman can signify a noble woman will be. High principles who works hard and has a personality. That is going to going to bring sheep are going to follow it or bust or solve the. Lease and urge a condo was francescos 3rd wife. The birth of their 2nd child a move into a new home could have been the occasion for the commission portrait. And yet up until them leonardo only portrayed men and women of nobility these people were interesting to him a star such as himself could choose his own subjects why did he paint lisa down joconde. Leonardo return to florence around 1500 tremolando he was 48 years old restless without family and didnt have any large commissions on the horizon. Lou nodded to one that he went lay in auto came to florence he didnt have any commissions or work. And we know that portraits of the bread and butter of painters doing it and that is to say they are the simplest commissions and also the best paid so it is easily possible that francesco del joe condo commissions laid auto to portray his wife out in the morning. But doubts arise theres a condo family trade register resides in the lucky vo story codell instituto. And it is the basis of their tax report. Florence and a highly advanced tax system the socalled catastrophe. As part of this its citizens had to claim all of their incomes and expenditures. In this trade register all movement of money and assets were meticulously recorded. The summary mentions that leonardo received the commission in 1503 so a record of the expensive portrait must certainly have been made. But in 50 no 3 there is no reference to the expense of a painting. There is no record of a commission to leonardo in the entire trade register. There is also no mention of such a valuable painting in the inheritance. You can imagine how desperately i searched for clues of a commission or payments. Not even in the testament is there mention that this painting existed. I think francesco would have certainly claimed it since it was a painting with a rising and secure value the whole thing is incomprehensible shes begun to see a vision. Friend just go would have most likely shown the portrayed by the famous painter publicly and would not have risked event or tax evasion. In lynn on his record there is also no trace of a commission by francesca money apparently didnt change hands. From just goes testament is archived in florence is our key view destructo there in there is also no mention of the great masters valuable artwork. Leonardo apparently never delivered the painting to francesca. Bizarrely writes about an incomplete portraits of the mona lisa and the louvre however is completed down to the very last detail. I made the years shorey he except of the commission at a time in which he had no work at that which he introduced himself to the merchant who wanted a painting of his wife and simply and. Then he painted only the head. They stared he interrupted the work for other commission were left on finished never delivering the painting to the merchant not even the head. And there are no traces of this painting in florence with the traces left by the motion couple must be available in the archives in one documents Old Testament that you do with that the decrease that and yet this painting by leonardo shows up with the way to the. Usual day stanley if we had finished the painting and the little boy then a record within the family would exist if a painting by a Famous Artist like me or not oh was a very valuable commodity while at this. They left me advocated wes appeared we know absolutely nothing about this but he. Says thats right i mean the thing. Hasnt really been lost. As described by her sorry lost is the painting in the louvre a different one. Much about leonardo it seems unexplainable today very few artists have captivated peoples imaginations as he has. One reason for this is that he started so many paintings that he never finished like that of st jerome in the wilderness. Yet these works count among out historys most famous. As with the end a ration of the magi leonardo often lost interest in his paintings after he solved challenges of figuration and compositional finishing the pieces became too tedious. This was also the case with the fresco for the council hall of plot so vecchio. It was to become his largest work commissioned by the City Government leonardo chose the battle of hunky aria as his motif. Leonardo received the commission in 1503. 00 the same period during which he worked on lease or dojo condos portrayed. Restless as he was leonardo left even the biggest project of florence commissioned incomplete is it plausible that he behaved similarly when one only said im bending and only to finish it later most of ready made it is very likely that blaine otto puts the painting aside. He didnt finish it and never delivered it it was most likely completed at a later time made you read it a lot. Less ese so i think thats this theory in which the painting was begun in 1503 and finished later is the most plausible and its also the one i personally believe well put in i mean. When did leonardo finish the painting. Lets assume in old age long after he started it. Then leonardo must have carried the painting with him throughout much of his life ringback. If there was such a time span between the start and the completion of the painting then we can determine that with todays modern methods. And again modern technology has a go at the mona lisa. The results show that the color pigments were applied without significant interruption. Using infrared technology historians searched for over painted areas or corrections. The genius leonardo made hardly a single correction from the 1st brush stroke to the finished piece. The only overpainting occurred on mona lisas left hand here leonardo corrected the gesture of her finger. Aside from that the painting was made in one session an unbelievable achievement by the master. According to art historian alexander pairing these discoveries further confound the mona lisa theory. The council on to sue the entire Study Confirms the absurdity of the identity of the loser painting or painting depicting more lisa would be moved to move more nearly so we see. First because it was determines that a painterly process was fairly continuous and going to new release or fall there must be armed he would have had to paint it in 2 completely separate stages in that top when it goes to church it will clearly be identified with todays methods and tools. Of all the 1st ruling 4 of them voted to go on to launch of the landscape it would have had to have been you since s. R. T. Didnt mention one at all but i know launch of. The great biog. As in another aspect as well. In describing the mona lisa he talks about her eyelashes which could be rendered only by the most delicate of brushes on her brows you witnessed them at their fullest and spacek and how they emerge from the pores of her skin and art is not really as one can only imagine. But the mona lisa that hangs in the louvre today has neither eyelashes no eyebrows. These are also not detectable using relief imaging. For sorry one of the main attests to the Mona Lisa Fieri never saw the painting himself. Sadly no larry ruffled the bizarre it didnt have any written sources his biography is based on mia oral accounts that circulated influence. At. Ask lee to have you with if you yet trade back that if he got it pushed up this means he wrote part of the history of drug combos poetry was the mona lisa or based on such oral accounts the passed from person to person. Who we never saw the painting he had this he described what he invented that those who do. But from where does the painting in the louvre stand are there 2 portraits one of them lost. This new idea takes us to the end whats on the watch prompts. Me another died here in 1519 and the advanced age of 67. The chapel in which he was in tune is located directly next to the king chateau. Leonardo came to him was by invitation of the french king francis the 1st by them the artistic genius had already achieved cult status. Leonardo lived in a manner next to the chateau called clue loosing. An incident occurred in the small french manner that steers the mona lisa investigation in an entirely new and revolutionary direction. Leonardo brought 3 paintings with him the wonder today is referred to as the mona lisa a painting of some drum baptist and that was some downloads that he stayed in this manner in closing where you also had a studio. At the. No chronicler antonio to beatus witnessed cardinal law degree of arrogance visit with leonardo enclosed to say on october the 10th 1517. 00 he relates the 3 paintings he saw at the aging masters one of the works is of a certain Florentine Lady painted from life that was made in honor of the passing of giuliano demented to another one is of the young same general the baptist the 3rd of madonna with her child seated on st annas lap the latter was the most perfect of them all. Today the painting of st anna with maria and baby jesus on her lap is housed in the louvre. So too is the painting that b. Artist described of saint john the baptist. Is the painting that was made for juliana domenici also in the louvre is it the mona lisa. Equired row for the grain tray was commissioned in rome by julie are no more dimiter cheap. As a result of an affair he had with a woman from will be no reality made you figure rundown or. Rather your question if you get. d d a new name surfaces magic to. The ruling family of florence this name is most associated with a renaissance period they were rich scrupulous obsessed with power and patrons of the arts. Giuliano domenici was one of the 2 brothers that lived during davinci time. He was a womanizer and to squander. He was charismatic had a powerful name and an influential brother. His brother lived in rome his name was given me to many changed and he had High Aspirations later he became cardinal and finally pope. As pope lear the tent he made history as a sensitive our patron as well as a scrupulous and powerful politician. He strengthened the clergys power and influence over the battling italian city states and had a weakness for the beautiful things in life. Giuliano is extravagant brother arrived in or beano when he was a guest in the plot so to carla. Here he had several chambers known as the magnificence quarter. Giuliano. Was a poet he had been raised by his father lorenzo who was a great writer he wrote poetry and was interested in women that havent the slightest interest in politics not everyone is fully fully. Around. Brioni is rather it was a great alteration to the exact opposite that my that he was wrong about everything. And his great passion was politics. Greedy corporate i mean. I was an avid hunter. But he made the top dog pen a politician. Giovani demi jean pope leo the tent took care of his brother julian there throughout his life he also financed his extravagant lifestyle. Giuliano had come closer fast. But one of these flames had serious consequences. In the marker region. So do carlo looms over the town. The tragedy involving giuliano the many that will eventually lead to the mona lisa took place. But that the most important source is a document that is housed in the library of the university of you know this document is a page in a book a foundling people in his box. Records were found in the University Library of all be no regarding a certain impala to. A politician would later become cardinal publish poison to the age of 24. 00. But he was born an orphan. How did he acquire the name. Who were his parents. For the record was documented birth how he became. Im an orphan. And later a medic. The name of his mother also appears. From downey a young woman from beano. Not much is known about but if it could have been dani she was a guest of the blood to do karla by invitation only giuliano. It is unclear if she offered him her labors of love if he said used her or as recorded by one of the documents was raped. In any case she spent a night with giuliana. And theres likely in voluntarily. But how should you have opposed the rich route. She was plagued with severe remorse after her affair with giuliana. Some sources stated that she was married at the time. Friend danny fell into a crisis the deep end when she found out that she was with child. A child out of wedlock from a brief encounter in the court of beano. And then she drew up a terrible plan. She confided in her friend and midwife that she didnt want the child and that she could not take the disgrace. The midwife should kill the newborn in case president he dies in childbirth. Danny did in fact dial up real fever. But the midwife didnt take the newborns life. On april the 19th 1511 the night before Easter Sunday she dropped the child off on the steps of the sun ticky are a judge you know being out. The baby wrapped in a white sheet was giuliano so. He had a coin on him as a token of his heritage in the absence of a legitimate heir giuliana de medici recognized him as his son he named him in politics. Giuliani left to be with his son in potter a move to his brother the pope in rome. Leonardo da vinci resided in the chambers of the vatican where he worked for the medicis during this time. But commissions from the pope or spouse. Giuliano must have given him the commission of which leonore their rights including. Leonardo was to paint a painting to comfort a little politics. It badly you said earlier motto to paint may have pictures of a mother that i can gift to my some as an image of his mother sat at the laddie and we are free to enter it as you imagine it how a portrait of a mother shuttle flight leonardo painted the painting that we call mona lisa today and you know that to be. A must have been a great challenge to paint an image of a mother for upon a tear. Since he suffered a similar fate because of politics. He too was an illegitimate child who was recognized by his father. His mother didnt die in childbirth she was his fathers maid and he probably used her dependency on him for labors of love as had giuliano with his mistress friend donnie. Followed. And leonardo shared a similar fate in this inspired leonardo to paint a painting that ive held the memory of a mother and. The painting should lend comfort to younger politician who himself never saw his mother. He on down to painted the image of. Bill and so he develops the portraits out of his imagination. Into the coat well now go play in audio we didnt need to model. He was an illegitimate child himself and could easily relate to the feelings of such a child so. Juliano belletti cheney must have known this was lay in autos friend. Leonardo took himself back to the time of his childhood. He was mourning 1452 on a farm. His birth house still stands today its located in midst of an olive grove near the small Tuscan Village of inchy. The great master got his name from the small italian marriage. A church with a side chapel on the back tees 3 stands in the center of town. Leonardo was baptized here how memorial stone commemorate illegitimate leonardo was recognised as a song by his father pietro davinci. It was always puzzling why leonardo portrayed the wife of a silk merchant in dark clothing her silk merchant is proud. His colorful fabrics her clothes on the other hand recall morning and reverie if leonardo painted the image of a woman that had passed away and the dark colors make sense a smile also becomes explainable since it is directed at her own child. Giuliana to meditate he died before the painting was completed. Leonardo took it with him to france where debris artist saw it and took note of it in his travelogue. Might say should i use the painting in the luva is certainly not identical to the portraits that leonardo painted of more lisa deformed and more gnarly the real more lisa lisa delgado condo is the silk merchants wife. But where is the portrait of lisa to conduct as described by over sorry. To trace leads us to german giacomo couple calls a lie who is said to have had a relationship with a master. Is a lie was a rapscallion leonardo liked him anyway. He accompanied the master through his life for many travels and was his studio assistant. Who for a loon are several months or weeks before they an audio left for france in 1516 sylar i returned to his hometown of melana sallai not. My lawn them so on i want all sort of its all going to be on the occasion he must have received several paintings from leonard all. Slow from presumably incomplete works good move in fathers inside the painting appears in his state that is referred to as joconde. Love to. Conduct a painting called to conduct this is how it appears in his estate. An incomplete work of the great Leonardo Da Vinci was very valuable to sell high. So lawyer theoretically. Could have completed its rights. To he was a painter trained by leonardo many paintings are attributed to him. And he could have also sold them under layer not as name for a lot of money from coming. But that never happened so live died under mysterious circumstances just a few years after leonardos own death. The incomplete portrayed army said out of condor was in solace a state along with leonardos painting lay down the swamp. Both of these paintings were lost. In all likelihood it is the imaginary ideal image of a mother that hangs in the louvre commissioned by giuliano in many cheap. We must say goodbye to the mona lisa. It is the most famous painting in the wild. Among others been studied more thoroughly or more often now the mona lisa has revealed its true face. 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