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Noldo, Gherardini's father and Lisa's grandfather, had bequeathed a farm in Chianti to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital. Gherardini secured a lease for another of the hospital's farms; the family spent summers there at the house named Ca' di Pesa, so that Gherardini could oversee the wheat harvest.
Centuries after Lisa's death, Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. During the early 21st century, Lisa was definitively identified as the subject of the Mona Lisa.
The famous Mona Lisa is the portrait of Lisa Gherardini known as "La Gioconda" because she was married to Francesco Bartolomeo del Giocondo Florence, birthplace of the House of Gherardini, founding family of the Republic before its exile to Venice
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes crafted a lasting legacy alongside her TLC groupmates, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, before her untimely death in 2002.. The rapper died on April 25 ...
Within a week, Lisa Marie's cause of death was deferred, medical examiner spokeswoman Sarah Ardalani said: "Deferred means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has not been determined and the ...
This is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, best known as Mona Lisa or Gioconda, and is a clear copy of Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th century Mona Lisa.This version slightly differs from da Vinci's artwork, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, and its good workmanship, legibility, and expressiveness have been pointed out.
"She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known," mother Priscilla Presley said.