The mystery of the model that inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa is close to be resolved. Researchers believe that “if Lisa Gherardini” Florentine nobleman Leonardo considered the muse of the famous portrait of disturbing smile. Announced yesterday the Italian historian Silvano Vinceti, chairman of the National Committee for the Recovery of Cultural Property in Italy, there is a high probability that the remains found in the chapel of the convent of St. Ursula in Florence, are the Gherardini.
“On the basis of the convergence of all the elements that we consider that we found Lisa Gherardini,” said Vinceti to EFE. According to the analysis of carbon 14, the remains found in excavations coincide with the time of death of the woman, who was buried on July 15, 1542. To confirm the identity still missing genetic analysis and comparison of DNA with the descendants of the woman, a complicated issue, since the remains of Gherardini’s children were not preserved in optimum condition for the study.
The research on the model you have perched to Da Vinci began three years ago and had several drawbacks. Although the place where he was buried Gherardini was registered in the documents the convent, experts found it very difficult to identify because the planes had disappeared after a renovation of the building. Historians, then, must track the grave intended for lay people. They located inside the chapel was a mass grave had been closed five centuries ago, when the location of the altar was modified. There they found the remains of three people, one of which would be compatible with the most wanted woman in the history of Renaissance art.
In addition to the remains and the coincidence of the date, Vinceti and his team They found other evidence in addition to the important finding: that convent in Florence could only be buried women who met certain requirements. Including: economic contribution to the order, have a Franciscan family and lived some years in the convent. According Vinceti, Gherardini met these conditions: her husband, the merchant Francesco del Giocondo, made donations; He had a daughter who had entered the order and had lived there for some time. “With this information and all geographical, archaeological, anthropological and historical data can state with own prudence of science that the probability of having found the remains of the Mona Lisa is very high,” concluded the researcher.
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