A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. But was she also the subject of the Mona Lisa? Many scholars believe ...

The “Mona Lisa” was painted in the early 16th century. Between 1501 and 1503 Da Vinci lived with Cardinal Cesare Borgia near Laterina, Vinceti found. The bridge was in use and had four arches ...

Arts Scientists winkle a secret from the ‘Mona Lisa’ about how Leonardo painted the masterpiece Researchers found a rare compound, plumbonacrite, in Leonardo da Vinci's first layer of paint.

What’s more, records show that da Vinci was in the Laterina area around the time when he began the painting in the early 16th century. Like the bridge in the Mona Lisa , the Ponte Romito once ...