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veil were Spanish-influenced high fashion; they are not a depiction of mourning for her first daughter, as some scholars have proposed. The portrait is strikingly large; its size is equal to that of commissions acquired by wealthier art patrons of the time. This extravagance has been explained as a sign of Francesco and Lisa's social aspiration.
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Little is known about Lisa's life. Lisa was born in Florence. She married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official; she was a mother to six children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably
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Lisa and Francesco had six children: Piero, Piera, Camilla, Marietta, Andrea, and Giocondo between 1496 and 1502. Piera and Giocondo both died before they were toddlers. Lisa also raised two of her brother's children after their father's death. Lastly, she raised Bartolomeo, the son of Francesco and
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merchant, becoming his second wife. Her age at marriage was around the norm for Florentine women of the time, who often married men ten or more years their senior. Because her father had not participated in the custom of saving cash at a daughter's birth that compounded interest for dowries, Lisa's
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fulfilled 15th- and early 16th century requirements for portraying a woman of virtue. Lisa is portrayed as a faithful wife through gesture—her right hand rests over her left. Leonardo also presented Lisa as fashionable and successful, perhaps more well-off than she was. Her dark garments and black
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In June 1537, by his last will and testament, Francesco returned Lisa's dowry to her, gave her personal clothing and jewelry and provided for her future. Upon entrusting her care to their daughter Ludovica and, should she be incapable, his son Bartolomeo, Francesco wrote, "Given the affection and
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Francesco was a social climber, and not known particularly for his rectitude. He had joined the family business, a respected source of fine textiles, where he had done well, but the promise of higher profits tempted him into other enterprises. He imported sugar, animal hides, wool, and soap. He
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of following centuries. Kemp and Pallanti say on another occasion, the nuns purchased from Lisa 30 pounds (14 kg) of cheese made on her family's lands. She was able to place Marietta at Sant'Orsola in 1519. In 1521, Marietta took the name Suor Ludovica; she became a respected member of the
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They lived in shared accommodation until March 5, 1503, when Francesco was able to buy a house next door to his family's old home in the Via della Stufa. Leonardo is thought to have begun painting Lisa's portrait the same year. Lisa lived in the "Casa grande" on Via della Stufa for nearly fifty
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during the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the painting's iconization and fame. By the end of the 20th century, the painting was a global icon that had been used in more than 300 other paintings and in 2,000 advertisements, appearing at an average of one new advertisement each week.
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political or business interests (he was termed a "friend" rather than a "close friend"). In 1512, when the government of Florence feared the return of the Medici from exile, Francesco was imprisoned and fined 1,000 florins. He was released in September when the Medici returned.
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writes that Francesco was nearly 80 years old when he died, and Lisa may have lived until at least 1551, when she would have been 71 or 72. Lisa's death was not recorded by the city or by her family. Her funeral was well-attended and she was buried not in the family's vault at
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In 1465, Gherardini married Lisa di Giovanni Filippo de' Carducci, and in 1473, Caterina di Mariotto Rucellai; both of them died in childbirth. Lisa's mother was Lucrezia del Caccia, daughter of Piera Spinelli, and Gherardini's wife by his third marriage in 1476.
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and Giuseppe Pallanti remark in their history that Francesco—who provided for an eternal flame on his own grave—willed all of his possessions to his children and not to his wife, and did not guarantee Lisa an annuity, which would have been fairly commonplace.
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Camilla and Marietta became nuns. Camilla took the name Suor Beatrice and entered the convent of San Domenico di Cafaggio, where she was entrusted to the care of Lisa's sisters Suor Alessandra and Suor Camilla. Beatrice died at age 18 and was buried in the
279:, one of the family's rural properties. She was named for Lisa, a wife of her paternal grandfather. The eldest of seven children, Lisa had three sisters, one of whom was named Ginevra, and three brothers, Giovangualberto, Francesco, and Noldo. 497:. He is thought to have commissioned Lisa's portrait to celebrate both Andrea's birth and the purchase of the family's home. Lisa was 24 when Leonardo began her portrait. She was 40 when he died, and the portrait was still partly unfinished. 626:
By traditional accounts, Francesco married Tommasa Villani after Camilla Rucellai died, but Kemp and Pallanti say that no documents support this other marriage nor does the timeline allow it. Hales reports the same from a meeting with
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In one account, Francesco died at age 73 in 1538; then Lisa fell ill and was taken by her daughter Ludovica to the convent of Sant'Orsola, where she died on July 14, 1542, at the age of 63. In his scholarly account of their lives,
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They also owned a small country home in San Donato in the village of Poggio about 32 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city. Noldo, Gherardini's father and Lisa's grandfather, had bequeathed a farm in Chianti to the
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his first wife Camilla di Mariotto Rucellai, who died shortly after the birth. The second wife of Lisa's father, Caterina di Mariotto Rucellai, and Francesco's first wife were sisters, members of the Rucellai family.
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family was old and aristocratic, but over time had lost their influence. They were well off but not wealthy, and lived on a farm income in a city where there were great disparities in wealth among inhabitants.
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Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini, Lisa's father, came from a family who had lived on properties near San Donato in Poggio and only recently moved to the city. Gherardini at one time owned or rented six farms in
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dowry was land: her father's most valuable property in Chianti, the San Silvestro farm near her family's country home, which lies between Castellina and San Donato in Poggio, near two farms later owned by
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As members of the Silk Guild, Francesco's family was eligible for the highest offices of Florence, and eighty of his relatives occupied such roles over a span of fifty years. Francesco was elected to the
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love of the testator towards Mona Lisa, his beloved wife; in consideration of the fact that Lisa has always acted with a noble spirit and as a faithful wife; wishing that she shall have all she needs
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Adopting roles of a customer and supplier, Lisa developed a relationship with Sant'Orsola, a convent held in high regard in Florence. From the convent, Lisa is known to have purchased distillation of
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became a money-lender and dealt in property. Believing that land was a safe investment, Francesco transformed himself into a wealthy landowner after thirty-five years of marriage to Lisa by 1530.
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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.
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Neither poor nor among the most well-to-do in Florence, the couple lived a comfortable middle-class life. Historian Donald Sassoon says they were upwardly mobile and were among the city's
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became the world's most famous painting. In 2005, Lisa was identified as a subject for a da Vinci portrait around 1503, strongly reinforcing the traditional view of her as the model for
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During the spring of 1503, Leonardo had no income source, which may in part explain his interest in a private portrait. But later that year, he most likely had to delay his work on
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Like other Florentines of their financial means, Francesco's family members were art lovers and patrons. His son Bartolomeo asked Antonio di Donnino Mazzieri to paint a
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The reason is unknown. Kemp and Pallanti can only speculate on the reason (it was Lisa's choice, she'd broken with her husband, or perhaps it was Ludovica's decision).
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Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and NiccolĂČ Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream of Changing the Course of Florentine History (online notes for Chapter 6)
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in 2005 discovered a marginal note in a book in the library's collection—confirming the traditional view that the sitter was Lisa. The note, written by
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Lisa was born in Florence on June 15, 1479, on Via Maggio, although for many years it was thought she was born on Villa Vignamaggio just outside
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Speculation assigned Lisa's name to at least five different paintings and her identity to at least ten different people. Scholar
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baptismal records for June 1479, Lisa is the sixth entry, listed under her first and second names "Lisa & Camilla."
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Journalist Dianne Hales writes that no cash was involved. Lisa's dowry has been reported incorrectly at 170 
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for another member of his family. Francesco gave commissions to Leonardo for a portrait of his wife and to
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On March 5, 1495, 15-year-old Lisa married 29-year-old Francesco di Bartolomeo del Giocondo, an ambitious
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says the dowry's small size lends reason to think Francesco may have had true affection for Lisa.
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Besides Lisa, Leonardo himself, and Leonardo's mother, the following subjects have been proposed:
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The painting's title dates to 1550. An acquaintance of at least some of Francesco's family,
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Prese Lionardo a fare per Francesco del Giocondo il ritratto di mona Lisa sua moglie.
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Sassoon, Donald (2001a). "Mona Lisa: the Best-Known Girl in the Whole Wide World".
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put the conjecturing to rest "more or less definitively" after an expert at the
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is the feminine form of her married name. In French it is known by the variant
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in 1503, states that Leonardo was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo.
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Five includes two works attributed by one author to Leonardo: the Louvre
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that produced wheat, wine, and olive oil and where livestock was raised.
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has been in France since the 16th century, when Leonardo moved to
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Italian noblewoman and subject of the Mona Lisa (1479–1542)
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Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting
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Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model
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many years later in France, in one estimation by 1516.
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Index

Lisa Gherardini
Mona Lisa
detail of the painting showing Lisa's face
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
Republic of Florence
Duchy of Florence
Mona Lisa
[ˈliːzadeldʒoˈkondo]
née
[ɥerarˈdiːni]
Gherardini family
Florence
Tuscany
Mona Lisa
portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance
Florentine
Chianti
Yellowed paper with brown ink writing
Florence Cathedral
Greve
Santa Trinita
Santo Spirito
Santa Croce
Santa Maria Nuova
cloth
silk
Michelangelo

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