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Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
The catalogue raisonné Leonardo da Vinci (2019) confirms that the painting probably depicts Lisa del Giocondo, with Isabella d'Este being the only plausible alternative. [31] Scholars have developed several alternative views , arguing that Lisa del Giocondo was the subject of a different portrait, and identifying at least four other paintings ...
Proponents of the theory explain that the hypothetical first portrait, displaying prominent columns, would have been commissioned by Giocondo circa 1503, of a younger sitter (Lisa del Giocondo being 23 years old in 1503), and left unfinished in the possession of Leonardo's pupil and assistant Salaì until Salaì's death in 1524.
Specifically, it is believed by some that Leonardo da Vinci had begun working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the model of the Mona Lisa, in Florence by October 1503. [38] [39] [40] Although the Louvre states that it was "doubtless painted between 1503 and 1506", [41] Eugène Müntz is known to have reported that by 1501 Fra.
Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria) Gherardini, also known as Lisa and Mona Lisa, was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy.
Leonardo is thought to have used Salaì as the model for several of his works, specifically St. John the Baptist, Bacchus and Angelo Incarnato. [1] [6] Some researchers also believe that Salaì–and not Lisa del Giocondo–was the real model for the Mona Lisa, but this claim is disputed by the Louvre. [6]
The theory that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait by Leonardo was first proposed in 1987 by Lillian Schwartz, an artist and computer technician.Shwartz noted the similarities in the shapes of the facial features of the painting with those of the drawing popularly believed to be a self-portrait of Leonardo, and theorized that the Mona Lisa may have been a self-portrait in drag. [2]
Warhol's works Colored Mona Lisa (1963), Four Mona Lisas (1978), and Mona Lisa Four Times (1978) illustrate Warhol's method of silk-screening an image repetitively within the same work of art. [38] In 1974 Salvatore Fiume made Gioconda Africana, a tribute to black female beauty: this "Gioconda" was donated to the Vatican and stays in Vatican ...