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Historians and scientists use new technology to answer a very old question: what is the true identity of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa? Heres' more.
For over five centuries art lovers have asked, "Who was the Mona Lisa?"
A team of art historians, armed with the latest technical gadgetry, descend on a dilapidated convent in Florence on Wednesday. They're hoping to finally solve the mystery.
Italian art historians believe the woman who modeled for Leonardo da Vinci's painting back in the sixteenth century was the wife of a nobleman, Lisa Gherardini.
But there is no definitive proof.
Scientist now plan to find the remains of Gherardini, reconstruct her face and prove she is the woman in one of the world's most famous paintings.
The search begins in the Saint Orsola convent, a structure in central Firenze. It's now almost reduced to ruins.
Little is visible of the small church that's believed to be where Gherardini is buried.
But using the latest in ground-penetrating radar equipment, scientists are scanning the floor in the small church to pinpoint areas where they may start digging.
[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:
"Here Gherardini spent the last few years of her life because she had two sons and two daughters and her daughters were nuns. One of these nuns looked after her in the last moments of her life and she was buried here."
[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:
"Many Florentine woman would have died at the age of 63 but we know that one of these women was buried here. To be sure we have to find the DNA in her bones, once we have found that we compare it with the DNA of her children who are buried at the Santissima Annunziata convent."
Historians and scientists use new technology to answer a very old question: what is the true identity of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa? Heres' more.
For over five centuries art lovers have asked, "Who was the Mona Lisa?"
A team of art historians, armed with the latest technical gadgetry, descend on a dilapidated convent in Florence on Wednesday. They're hoping to finally solve the mystery.
Italian art historians believe the woman who modeled for Leonardo da Vinci's painting back in the sixteenth century was the wife of a nobleman, Lisa Gherardini.
But there is no definitive proof.
Scientist now plan to find the remains of Gherardini, reconstruct her face and prove she is the woman in one of the world's most famous paintings.
The search begins in the Saint Orsola convent, a structure in central Firenze. It's now almost reduced to ruins.
Little is visible of the small church that's believed to be where Gherardini is buried.
But using the latest in ground-penetrating radar equipment, scientists are scanning the floor in the small church to pinpoint areas where they may start digging.
[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:
"Here Gherardini spent the last few years of her life because she had two sons and two daughters and her daughters were nuns. One of these nuns looked after her in the last moments of her life and she was buried here."
[Professor Francesco Mallegni, Paleoanthropologist, University of Pisa]:
"Many Florentine woman would have died at the age of 63 but we know that one of these women was buried here. To be sure we have to find the DNA in her bones, once we have found that we compare it with the DNA of her children who are buried at the Santissima Annunziata convent."
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