Mona Lisa’s Body Might Soon Be Exhumed
There might soon be a body connected to the mysterious woman behind the Mona Lisa painting—quite literally. The remains of Lisa Gherardini, the woman art historians think is the subject of the famous portrait, are about to be exhumed from beneath a church in Florence. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
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Ed note: How a heist 100 years ago by a worker at the Louvre secured Leonardo’s Mona Lisa as an art world icon.