Silvano Vinceti the 60 year old head of the Italian National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, although not a trained historian or scientist, has turned his hand at historical investigations. He is currently attempting to verify the identity of the muse for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa is claimed in some circles to be a self-portrait, and in others to be Lisa Gherardini the wife of a Florentine silk merchant thought to have commissioned the portrait, or according to Vinceti the muse may have been da Vinci’s longtime male lover and apprentice Gian Giacomo Caprotti. In a process of elimination, Vinceti hopes to locate the body of Gherardini in a Florence convent, recovering the skull to reconstruct her face and compare to the painting. Inspired by Eleanor Biles and Silvia Aloisi ow.ly/51yf5 image source Facebook ow.ly/51y8B Looking for her bones seems a sacrilege (July 17 2011)

Silvano Vinceti the 60 year old head of the Italian National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, although not a trained historian or scientist, has turned his hand at historical investigations. He is currently attempting to verify the identity of the muse for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa is claimed in some circles to be a self-portrait, and in others to be Lisa Gherardini the wife of a Florentine silk merchant thought to have commissioned the portrait, or according to Vinceti the muse may have been da Vinci’s longtime male lover and apprentice Gian Giacomo Caprotti. In a process of elimination, Vinceti hopes to locate the body of Gherardini in a Florence convent, recovering the skull to reconstruct her face and compare to the painting.

 

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