The archaeologists have started to remove the bones of Lisa Gherardini, the woman who inspired Leonardo da Vinci believed when painting the Mona Lisa.
"Preliminary analysis of the cranium and pelvis showed that the bones belong to adult women," said Giorgio Gruppioni, anthropologists from the University of Bologna. However, Gruppioni confessed to spend the whole bone, which is found on the floor of an ancient church known as St. Orsola, prior to determine the sex of the owner of these bones. All the bones will be tested by radiocarbon dating, analysis of histology, and DNA testing.
To ensure that the bones belonged to Gherardini, scientists will compare DNA from the bones with DNA from the children Gherardini, Bartolomeo and Piero, who was buried in the church Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
The identity of the Mona Lisa itself is still speculation: some say the painting was inspired by the artist's mother, a woman of nobility, tunasusila women, even really a man. However, most scientists believe that the Mona Lisa is a member of the royal family who come from inland, who married a rich merchant Francesco del Giocondo. "He's right there, live like us," said Giuseppe Pallanti that no excavation involved.
Pallanti Gherardini has researched a long time. According to him, Gherardini was born on June 15, 1479 and died at the age of 63 years, 4 years after her husband died. "Lisa in Francesco Del Giocindo died on July 15, 1542,"he stated in a document known as the "Death Books" Pallantini found in church archives.
The project itself aims to find a bone Gherardini and reconstruct her face to ensure similarity with the Mona Lisa painting that hung in the Louvre Museum, Paris. (Source: Discovery News/National Geographic)
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