Mona Lisa Painting

Mona Lisa – Lost and Found

An enchanting painting with a befittingly colorful past. That's the easiest way to describe the hide and seek that this masterpiece has palyed with history. After being stationed in the Louvre for five years, it was stolen on August 21, 1911. The Louvre was closed for an entire week to aid in the investigation of the theft. Many painters including Pablo Piccasso and his friend Guillaume Apollinaire, were questioned. Not a trace of the painting was found until two years later Louvere employee Vincenzo Peruggia was arrested attempting to sell it to a Florence art dealer.

Lisa Gherardini –the real Mona Lisa?

The model for this painting is supposedly a certain Lisa Gherardini , wife of a famous Florence silk Merchant. She was aged about 24 when this painting was made and her husband was a good friend of Leonardo's father.

However many believe that this is not true , and there are hundreds of alternative suggestions, some even claiming that it's a self potrait.

Mona Lisa might be a portrait of a bored wife of a rich silk merchant or it could be Leonardo Da Vinci's way of expressing his bifurcated mind and physicality by painting himself as a woman, but most importantly it is a mystery that has inspired us to imagine.