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(1479–1542) Other names: Mona Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo Biographical Little is known about Lisa Gherardini's life. She came from an old Florentine family of modest means and was fifteen when she married her husband, who was thirty-five and widowed. Her dowry was not substantial and included a farming estate in San Silvestro, Chianti. They lived in her husband's palace in the working-class district on Via della Stufa in Florence. In 1540, widowed and in poor health, Lisa moved to the nearby convent of Sant'Orsola, where she remained until her death. She is now generally accepted as having been the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa/La Gioconda after the discovery in 2005 of an annotation in a manuscript referring to a portrait of 'Lise del Giocondo' that Leonardo was working on. Place of birth and baptism: Florence Place of death and burial: Convent of Sant'Orsola, Florence Daughter of Antonmaria Gherardini and Lucrezia Spinelli, she married Francesco del Giocondo in 1495, and had issue. |
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