Mona Lisa had just given birth to her second son over 500 years ago when she sat for the famous portrait by artist Leonardo daVinci which hangs in The Louvre in Paris. Canadian scientists using new technology were able to unearth this information, according to a Reuter's article.
We now know the most famous painting in the world was made circa 1503 to commemorate the second son of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco de Giocondo. She was originally painted with her hair in a bun, the new discoveries show, and an article in Cosmos magazine on the new discoveries notes that the long hair had created the idea that Mona had been a loose woman. Artists including Botero, Leger, Basquiat, Warhol and Peter Max among others, have played with Mona, the cultural icon.
Think of all the things we still don't know. History being rewritten, history being revised. All because of the birth of a (male) child.
Mama Mona.
Notice the roundness of her compared with the late Sarah Jessica Parker....and so on and so forth...
Posted by: merry mama | October 03, 2006 at 02:12 PM