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Mona Lisa

The great artist Leonardo da Vinci painted the painting entitled `Mona Lisa ' more than five hundred years ago , but even today , the mystery and the ambiguity about the painting and more especially , about the woman in the painting has never faded . Even today , art enthusiasts and lovers of mystery , and almost anyone who has ever heard of or seen reproductions of the painting `Mona Lisa ' ask , Who is this woman ? Why was she painted ? Why does she

smile ? What is it about her smile that has attracted the attention of generations of people ' in recent times some researchers of the Heidelberg University in Germany have claimed to have found the key to the mystery surrounding the painting , and that they have finally unraveled the identity of the woman . According to them , some scribbled notes in the margin of a book written five hundred years ago state convincingly that the woman with the `strange half smile ' is in reality Lisa Gherardini , the wife of a Florentine merchant called Giocondo . The mystery woman was also supposedly known as `La Gioconda ' and according to Giorgio Vasari who positively identified the woman , it was Lisa Gherardini who had posed for Leonardo da Vinci ( Who was Mona Lisa ' 2008

It is true that many people have wondered which of the several claims about the origin of Mona Lisa are with proof , and how many , mere plain conjecture . According to Maike Vogt-Leurssen in his...