A team of researchers have been working since 2011 to determine through genealogy, carbon dating and genetics, if the model of Mona Lisa was Lisa Gherardini, known today as ‘La Gioconda’, a silk merchant’s wife in Florence who lived across the street from da Vinci in the early 1500s. It is believed her husband commissioned da Vinci to paint her portrait in 1503. Click here to read the entire story in Ancient Origins.
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Archaeologists say they have found the bones of Mona Lisa but cannot extract DNA
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