Mona Lisa Men Have Named Her: Dianne Hales on the “Ordinary” Renaissance Woman Who Continues to Spark “Extraordinary Interest”
Believed to be the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452–1519) “Mona Lisa,” Lisa Gherardini (1479–1542) was the wife of a Florentine silk merchant. The oil painting—considered to be Leonardo’s greatest masterpiece—is hanging in the Louvre museum in Paris. Dianne Hales is an award-winning freelance journalist and author of several...
