Such a holy offensive. It is the most famous most expensive and most mysterious painting in the world. Each year millions of people visit the portrait and 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 my one of the greatest geniuses who ever left 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. 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. Ringback d yet her biggest secret remains who was shooting whose portrait is leonardo showing us. Well to solve this puzzle the louvre placed its most famous painting under scientific scrutiny using the most modern techniques. The painting was examined using x. Rays marman spectroscopy ultraviolet an infrared pictures among other techniques to uncover its secrets. The masters painting technique was examined beyond the surface were corrections made to the painting was anything over painted did leonardo paint the piece in one session or did he work on it for decades. The. 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. 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 d 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 lisa. The wife of the florentine silk merchant francesco dodger condo who commissioned the piece in 1503. This contradicts a note by the chronicle antonio to be artists from 1517 in which Leonardo Da Vinci claims to have been commissioned by julia dimity. Just like the 2 chroniclers contemporary leonardo scholars also have divergent theories. People until an artist dorian from florence believes the officially recognized theory that the painting depicts least condo. I believe that play an audio actually painted lisa get r d the wife of francesco del joconde. Probably around 1503. 00 and an immediate impression to the. 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 rundown. 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 he chronicled the biographies of many italians artists. Next to his work as an architect asari documented the biographies of great italian artists today these make up one of the most important foundations of art history levitated a pua chill leonti architect tortie escort poorly 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 but the sorry 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 model painted the portrait of mona lisa for francesca condo her husband and its in the possession of king france is 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 wrote and who was her husband francesco down to come to hong. 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 friend just go down to condo and his wife climb the ranks of society. Now the fact is were going to Francesco Delta condor was well known in the city seem bush admitted he was nice just an ordinary immersions he was also a public and charismatic figure legal mom had it up not a live answer book because. Hes a doctor in your lease it was very. Unfair sorry to find so very beautiful to see what i mean to marry her husband also spoke very highly off her and it does that mean that in his testaments francesco refers to her as a bona fide a woman if you move in this is an unusual description for woman again those who are only i have yet to find a similar description then other testaments in general would be no more you are not on a bonafide a woman can signify a noble woman with high principles who works hard. Personality. That is going to hold up in chicagoan developer post or solve the. Lease and 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 him self could choose his own subjects why did he paint lisa down to calm down. 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 not that he went lay in otto came to florence he didnt have any commissions or work. And we know that portraits are 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 of the morning. But darts arise theres a condo family trade register resides in the lucky vo store to codell instituto daily no 20 and it is the basis of their. Next report. Florence had 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. Bizzare 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 a 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 hes begun to see if you should. Just go would have most likely shown the portrayed by the famous painter publicly and would not have risked a bent toward tax evasion. Inland on his records there is also no trace of a commission by francesca money apparently didnt change cams. Friend just goes testament is archived in florences are key of you to start oh there in there is also no mention of the great masters valuable artwork leonardo apparently never delivered the painting to francesco. Mazhar he writes about an incomplete portraits of the mona lisa and the louvre however is completed down to the very last detail. I mean. Years shorey except of the commission at a time in which he had no work. He introduced himself to the merchant who wanted a pain. Think of his wife and simply agree then he painted only the head. Of a study he interrupted the work for other commissions and left it all 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 documents Old Testament strachey do with that the and yet this painting by leonardo shows up with no way to the. Usual day stanley if he had finished the painting and a little bit then a record within the family would exist a painting by a Famous Artist like leo nardo was a very valuable commodity while get this. They left for me advocated way superior we know absolutely nothing about this but he. Says that the thing. Hasnt really been lost. The least as described by her sorry last is the painting in the louvre a different one. Much about leonardo 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 center in the wilderness. Yet these works count among art 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 palace so vecchio. It was to become his largest work commissioned by the City Government leonardo chose the battle of hunky ari as his motif. Leonardo received the commission in 1503. 00 the same period during which he worked on lisa condos portrait. Restless as he was leonardo left even the biggest project the florence commissioned incomplete is it plausible that he behaved similarly with mona lisa im bending it only to finish it later most of ready made it is very likely that elaine otto puts the painting aside. He didnt finish it and never delivered it it was most likely completed at a later time i made you read it not to let a z so i think thats this theory in which the painting was begun in 1503 and finished later it 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 actions. 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. To go to school in the entire Study Confirms the upsurge of the identity of the loser painting or a painting depicting more lisa would be a male them more nearly so we see that 1st because it was determines that a painfully process was fairly continuous and going to a new release or fall to. The armed he would have had to paint it in 2 completely separate stages to sweden and that stopped when those who church will clearly be identified with todays methods and tools. Of all the 1st stone 4 of them voted to go on to launch of the landscape it would have had to have been new since s. R. T. Didnt mention one at all but i know long soft. The great biog. Ans 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 spouses and how they emerged from the pores of her skin 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 in florence. At. Ask lee to libya would have to yet trade back that would be a bit iffy if he got it pushed up this means he wrote part of the history of the condors paltry with the mona lisa or based on such oral accounts the passed from person to person the best story but who we never saw the painting this clearly he described what he invented that those you do know. 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 was on the watch prompts. Leonardo 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 fast by them the artistic genius had already achieved cult status. Leonardo lived in a manner next to the chateau called clue to see. 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. The chronicler antonio de beatus witnessed cardinal law drag of arrogance visit with leonardo enclosed to say on october the tent 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 do many another one is of the young st joe 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 st john the baptist. Is the painting that was made for juliana. Also in the louvre is it the mona lisa. Equired row for their interview was commissioned in rome by julie our north dimiter. As a result of an affair he had with a woman me from it will be no reality maybe you figure but under. Your russian government. d d the new name surfaces medicating. The ruling family of florence this name is most associated with the 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 a squander. He was charismatic had a powerful name and an influential brother. His brother lived in rome his name was given to me to meditate and he had High Aspirations later he became cardinal and finally pope. As pope clear the tent he made history as a sensitive our patron as well as a scrupulous and powerful politician. To strengthen the clergys power and influence over the battling italian city states and have a weakness for the beautiful things in life. Giuliano is extravagant brother arrived in or bina when he was a guest of the plot so to carla. Here he had several chambers known as the magnificence quarter. Giuliano the. Airport was a poet he had been raised by his father lorenzo who was a great writer he wrote poetry amber is interested in women having the slightest interest in politics not everyone is she. Really only his brother was a great politician the exact opposite that my that he was wrong about everything. And it is great passion was politics. Greedy corporate i mean. I was an avid hunter. But he made the top dog hen a politician oh w. V. Giovani demi g. Pope leo the tent took care of his brother julian there throughout his life he also financed his extravagant lifestyle. Giuliano had countless affairs. But one of these flames had serious consequences. In the marker region. So do carlisle looms over the town. The tragedy involving giuliana to many that will eventually lead to the mona lisa took place. For the poor but that the most important source is a document that is housed in the library of the university of. This document is a page in a book a foundling the hebrew he spoke. Records were found in the University Library of beano regarding a certain impala today many. In politics would later become cardinal published poison to be age of 24. 00. But he was born an orphan. How did he acquire the name many chiefs. Who were his parents. For the records documents his back. How he became. Im an orphan. And later. The name of his mother also appears. Brown downey a young woman from beano. Not much is known about but if it had been dani she was a guest of the pulitzer to carla by invitation giuliano. It is unclear if she offered him her labors of love if he said used 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 he 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 will be no. Then she drew up a terrible plan. She confided in her friend and midwife that she didnt want the child and though she could not take the disgrace. A midwife should kill the newborn in case president he dies in childbirth. Did in fact die pure aprile fever. But the midwife didnt take the newborns life. On april the 19th 1511. 00 the night before Easter Sunday she dropped the child off on the steps of the sun ticky are a judge and it will be enough. The baby wrapped in a white sheet was giuliano something. 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 a politician. Giuliani left obinna with his son the 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 mehdi g. s during this time. But commissions from the popes response here giuliano must have given him the commission of which leonore their rights including. Leonardo was to paint a painting to comfort little politics. Badly you set or your motto to paint may have pricked or of a mother that i can gift my some as an image of his mother that at daulat am youre free to enter as your measurement how a portrait of a mother shuttle flight a mere nado painted the painting that we call mona lisa today a little that. It must have been a great challenge to paint an image of a mother for upon a tear. Since he suffered a similar fate as a politician. 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 danny. Pollock. And leonardo shared a similar fate and this inspired leonardo to paint a painting that held the memory of a mother and. The painting should lend comfort to young politician who himself never saw his mother. He on down to painted the image of. So he develops the portraits out of his imagination. And we will now go play an audio didnt need to model. He was an illegitimate child himself and could easily relate to the feelings of such a child so in this. Giuliano day immediate change must have known this house lay in autos friend. Article. Leonardo took himself back to the time of his childhood. He was born in 1452 on a farm. His birth house still stands today its located in midst of an all of grove near the small Tuscan Village of vinci. The great master got his name from the small italian village. Church with a side chapel on the back the stories downs in the center of town. Leonardo was baptized here how memorial stone commemorates the illegitimate leonardo who was recognised as a song by his father pineiro da vinci. It was always puzzling why leonardo portrayed the wife of a silk merchant in dark clothing. Merchant is proud. With his colorful fabrics her clothes on the other hand recall mourning and reverie if leonardo painted the image of a woman that had passed away then the dark colors make sense a smile also becomes explainable since it is directed at her own child. Giuliana and a medic who died before the painting was completed. Leonardo took it with him to france but a b. Artist saw it and took note of it in his travelogue. Might say should i use the painting in the loop is certainly not identical to the portraits that leonardo painted of more lisa the phone that more nalini saw the real him 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 germ giacomo cup protein called saliva who is said to have had a relationship with the master. A lie was a rapscallion but leonardo liked him anyway. He accompanied the master through his life for many travels and was his studio assistant. Who for our little knowledge born several months or weeks before they an audio left for france in a 1516 song law i returned to his hometown of melana sallai not. My long term son. Its all going to be on the occasion he must have received several paintings from leonard all because one are. Slow for moodily for assumably incomplete works. In falls inside the painting appears in his a state that is referred to as joconde i. Love to go home to our. Larger conda 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 satellite. So loyal to their rhetoric lee. Could have completed it right next to him for luna he was a painter trained by leonardo many paintings are attributed to him. He could have also sold them underlayer not as name for a lot of money from conan. But that never happened so live died under mysterious circumstances just a few years after leonardos own death. The incomplete portrayed of lisa condor was in solace a state along with leonardos painting later in the swan. 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 good bye to the mona lisa. It is the most famous painting in the wild. None others been studied more thorough only on more off from the mona lisa has revealed its true face. The same face was found over and over again but he features of the coats of paint the face with its loving gaze and its comforting smile. The image of him often. Found. Illegal an expulsion. And theyre not sharing what keeps hearing about the dollars she wants for a Refugee Aid Organization in recent at the time shes border they can die there and we have no one migrants tell us its very troubling. She set out to investigate. 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