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Mona Lisa mystery finally solved: The sitter is indisputably Lisa del Giocondo
Nothing is certain in this world: there we all were, from Tokyo to Toronto, absolutely convinced that the most famous painting in the world depicted Mona Lisa alias the Gioconda. Scholars all around, however, knew better, and for decades have been coming up with suggestions as to who she might be, until she was as confused as to her identity as Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of the sonnets.
At last the matter is solved, and it is we who have been right all along. This month’s Burlington Magazine publishes an article by Janice Shell and Grazioso Sironi, who have come up with a document of 1525 in the Milan State Archives, the inventory of goods on death of Leonardo’s assistant for thirty years, Salaì, which lists a “Quadro dicto la Joconda” (a painting called la Joconda) with an enormously high value assigned to it. The significance of this find is that it is the earliest known reference to the painting in the Louvre by that name and it settles the above- mentioned confusion as to the identity of the sitter, which has come about because of two conflicting sixteenth-century accounts of the work.
The first is the only eye-witness description of what Leonardo was up to in his chateau of Cloux, by one Anto
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And what of the paintbrush, of which he had been so heartily sick, so impaziente, a couple of years previously? Was he painting again? It seems he was. In the summer of 1503, when he was not traipsing round the base-camps and excavation-sites of the Pisa campaign, when he was not computing the sluice-rates and shovel-hours needed to bring his cunning stratagem to pass, Leonardo was almost certainly at work on the picture that can justly be called – as it is in the subtitle of a recent book on the subject – ‘the world’s most famous painting’.76
‘For Francesco del Giocondo Leonardo undertook to paint a portrait of his wife, Mona Lisa; he worked on it for four years and left it unfinished.’ Thus briskly Giorgio Vasari begins his account of the Mona Lisa. It is the fullest contemporary account of the painting, and the only one to offer a name for the sitter – whether correctly or not is much debated. The painting is called the Mona Lisa on the basis of Vasari’s identification, though as a title this was not much used before the nineteenth century. In Italy t
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