Is this the Mona Lisa's skeleton?

[Lt-Col A. Tack]

Discovery of bones in Florence convent believed to be those of silk merchant's wife who inspired Da Vinci

By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 03:49 EST, 18 July 2012

Archaeologists are convinced they've unearthed the secret behind the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Buried beneath the floor of a convent in Florence, Italy they've found a skeleton they believe belonged to Lisa Gherardini, the model who posed for Leonardo's da Vinci's mysterious masterpiece.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-convent.html

[Clear_blues]

pretty neat

[mathyou8]

i would still do nasty things to her!

[quinsen]

Still a hot chick - even after 500+ years.

[Marsch]

They can't find the skeleton of Mona Lisa because Da Vinci was gay and the model for the ML was his boy toy. Fact!

[KoTeMoRe]

Most portrait work included men posing instead of women. Which explains some very unnatural traits of the women painted.
However given La Gioconda was painted over 15 years It would appear that Leonardo would have it pretty hard to have his toy boy doeing the posing for him.

[RICHICOQUI]

[Marsch]

Most portrait work included men posing instead of women. Which explains some very unnatural traits of the women painted.
However given La Gioconda was painted over 15 years It would appear that Leonardo would have it pretty hard to have his toy boy doeing the posing for him.

It took him about three and not 15 years. Besides that he could have made a graphite sketch of his boyfriend beforehand to have the basics at hand when applying the paint.

[KoTeMoRe]

It took him about three and not 15 years. Besides that he could have made a graphite sketch of his boyfriend beforehand to have the basics at hand when applying the paint.

It took him about a decade to finalise the portrait and five years to finish the landscape, or so say people in the know.

The sketches that were made for the Gioconda were at least 14 and literally carbon copies of the sketch works of Santa Anna (detail, cut, landscape etc) according to Jeanne Faton. Both works were started in the same period. And they were all with Leonardo in France, when some made the link between St John, St Anna and la Gioconda.

On a side note, the said boyfriend was also his personal pupil and borrowed heavy handedly from Leonardo, be that his sfumato or the facial details. Furthermore one could, as the Louvre did, argue on the fact that this boyfriend actually never changed or aged in 30 years time.

[tercio67]

Meh, Mona Lisa's smile pales in comparison with Leonard of Quirm's Mona Ogg.