Mona Lisa is quite possibly the most well-known piece of
painted artwork in the entire world. It was painted by the infamous
Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian artist.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and lastly writer. His genius perhaps more than that of many other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of Renaissance Man, a man of " Unquenchable curiosity" and " feverishly inventive imagination".
Leonardo was renowned as primarily as a Painter. Among his works, The Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait.
It is perhaps the most studied piece of
artwork ever known. The subject’s facial expression has brought about a
source of debate for centuries, as her face remains largely enigmatic in
the portrait. Originally commissioned in Italy, it is now at home in
the French Republic, and hangs on display in the Louvre in Paris.
It is unusual in that most paintings are commissioned as oil on canvas, but the cottonwood panel is part of what has attributed to the frame of the painting. because of the medium used for the image, The Mina Lisa has survived for six centuries without ever having been restored trait very unusual when considering the time period of the piece.
Mona Lisa Gherardini was born on 15th june 1479, in Florence, in a small house on the corner between via Sguzza and via Maggio, which her father Antonmaria rented by Ciovanbattista Corbinelli.
In April 1494, Gherardini family moved to via Pepi, near vai Ghibellina and the house of ser piero da Vinci, famous notary and fater of Leonardo da vinci. A year later, in March 1495, Mona Lisa married Franceso de Giocondo, a rich silk merchant of Florence, and moved into his building in via della strufa, near Sant'Orsola Convent and San Lorenz Church.
Lisa had six children, three sons and tree daughters : Piero, Piera Camilla, Marietta, andrea and Giocondo, but Piera lived only two years, Camilla 19 and giocondo one month. Francesco del Giocondo died in Florence in 1538 and he was buried in the family tomd, built by himself into a Chapel behind the High Altra of SS Annunziata church. After Francesco's death, Lisa retired into Sant'Orsola convent, where there was the daughter suor Ludovica, and where she died was Burried on 15th july 1542. Giuseppe Pallanti