The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa (The Mona Lisa) The Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, better known as La Gioconda (La Joconde in French) or La Mona Lisa, is a pictorial work of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. It was acquired by... More

The Mona Lisa (The Mona Lisa) The Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, better known as La Gioconda (La Joconde in French) or La Mona Lisa, is a pictorial work of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. It was acquired by King Francis I of France at the beginning of the 16th century and has been owned by the French State ever since. It is on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris, undoubtedly being the "jewel" of its collections. Her name, La Gioconda (the joyful, in Spanish), derives from the most accepted thesis about the identity of the model: the wife of Francesco Bartolomeo de Giocondo, who was really called Lisa Gherardini, hence her other name: Mona (ma ' am, in old Italian) Lisa. The Louvre Museum accepts the full title indicated at the beginning as the original title of the work, although it does not recognize the identity of the model and only accepts it as a hypothesis. It is an oil painting on poplar panel measuring 77 × 53 cm , painted bet Less