posted January 17, 2008 02:02 PM         

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/01/15/mona-lisa-gherardini.html?ref=rss

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She has long been rumoured to be the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, but German experts say they've discovered information that confirms the identity of the artist's real-life Mona Lisa.

Lisa Gherardini — wife of wealthy Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo — is the woman who inspired Leonardo's iconic 16th-century portrait, also known as La Gioconda, according to experts from Germany's Heidelberg University Library.

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BTW:

Natalia Giucciardini Strozzi is the famous Mona Lisa's decendent and I gotta say... I can see the resemblence. She is the one on the left: