Mona Lisa

Lisa was born on 15 June 1479, in Florence. She married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Centuries after her death, on 15 July 1542, Mona Lisa, the Leonardo Da Vinci artwork, became the world’s most famous painting. Today it’s still “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”.

In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa. But she’ll never know what happened to her face in the last few years. And this is just a little part…

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