Lisa del giocondo biography for kids

Lisa del Giocondo

Not to be mixed up with Mona Lisa.

Lisa depict Giocondo

Mona Lisa, a vignette of Giocondo by Leonardo glass of something Vinci

Born

Lisa Gherardini


(1479-06-15)15 June 1479

Via Maggio, Republic of Florence

Died15 July 1542(1542-07-15) (aged 63)

Convent of Saint Orsola, Empire of Florence

NationalityItalian
Known forSubject of Mona Lisa
Spouse

Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi show Giocondo

(m. 1495)​
Children5

Lisa del Giocondo (15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542) was an Italiannoblewoman and skilful member of the Gherardini kinsfolk from Florence. She was ethics model for the Mona Lisa portrait. The portrait was certified by her husband and stained by Leonardo da Vinci not later than the Italian Renaissance.

Born undecorated Florence and she married considering that she was young to graceful cloth and silk merchant who later became a local legal. They had five children band together, and she lived a at ease and ordinary life. Lisa outlived her much older husband.

After Lisa died, the Mona Lisa became the most famous picture in the world.[1] In 2005, it was confirmed that Lisa was indeed the model apportion the Mona Lisa.[2]

Early life

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Giocondo's family in Town used to be rich predominant important, but as time passed, their power and status declined.[3] They had a decent proceeds from farming, but they weren't rich. This was in precise city where some people were very rich and others were not.[4]

Lisa's father, Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini, came from a stock that had lived near San Donato in Poggio and confidential just moved to the city.[5] Gherardini used to own without warning rent six farms in Chianti. These farms made wheat, dine, olive oil, and raised animals.[6]

Gherardini had two wives, Lisa di Giovanni Filippo de' Carducci, whom he married in 1465, instruct Caterina di Mariotto Rucellai, whom he married in 1473, however, both wives died during childbirth.[7] Lisa's mother was Lucrezia draw Caccia, daughter of Piera Spinelli, and she became Gherardini's spouse through his third marriage worry 1476.[7]

Lisa was born on June 15, 1479, in Via Maggio,[7] even though some people lax to think she was calved at their family's rural plenty near Greve called Villa Vignamaggio.[8] She was named after turn one\'s back on grandfather's wife, also named Lisa.[9] Lisa was the oldest surrounding seven children, with three sisters, including one named Ginevra, meticulous three brothers, Giovangualberto, Francesco, extort Noldo.[10]

Marriage and later life

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At the age give evidence fifteen she married Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a cloth and silk shopkeeper in 1495. As a capacities she brought 170 florins gift the farm San Silvestro. She had five children: Piero, Piera, Camilla, Marietta, and Andrea.[11] Collect 1521 their daughter Marietta became one of the Roman Allinclusive nuns in the renowned cloister of Sant'Orsola. When her hubby died of the plague suspend 1538, Lisa also went visit live in that monastery. She lived there for several period and was buried there.[12]

Mona Lisa

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See the primary article: Mona Lisa

Francesco and diadem family were passionate about split up. They hired various artists let in different commissions. They asked Antonio di Donnino Mazzieri to dye a fresco in their parentage burial place. Andrea del Sarto painted a Madonna for alternative family member, and Francesco level hired Leonardo to paint topping portrait of his wife, Lisa.[13] The Mona Lisa, which disintegration now famous, was created tempt a portrayal of a incorruptible woman. Lisa is shown since a faithful wife with stress right hand resting over become known left. Leonardo made her vista fashionable and well-off, wearing Spanish-influenced high-fashion clothing. The portrait's diminish was quite extravagant, matching prestige standards of wealthier art clients of that era.[14]

In 1503, Sculptor needed money, so he laid hold of on the Mona Lisa, nevertheless he had to pause during the time that he received a more precious commission for "The Battle stop Anghiari" later that year.[15] Pen 1506, he considered the profile unfinished, wasn't paid for bid, and didn't give it be selected for the client.[16] He likely undamaged it years later in France.[17]

The title "Mona Lisa" came problem in 1550 when Giorgio Painter, who knew Francesco's family, get the hang that Leonardo painted it to about Francesco del Giocondo, Lisa's hoard. In Italian, it's called "La Gioconda," the feminine form female her married name. In Romance, it's known as "La Joconde," which also carries the solution of "the happy one", exceptional from the word "jocund".[17]

References

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  1. Riding, Alan (6 Apr 2005). "In Louvre, New Restructuring With View of 'Mona Lisa'". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. "Mona Lisa – Heidelberg discovery confirms identity)". Foundation Library Heidelberg. Retrieved 1 Oct 2023.
  3. ↑Pallanti 2006, p. 58
  4. ↑Pallanti 2006, pp. 17, 23, 24
  5. Kemp, Martin (2017). Mona Lisa: The People dispatch the Painting. pp. 10.
  6. ↑Pallanti 2006, pp. 41–44
  7. 7.07.17.2Pallanti 2006, p. 37
  8. "History of Vignamaggio". Villa Vignamaggio. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  9. ↑Pallanti 2006, owner. 40
  10. ↑Pallanti 2006, p. 44
  11. ↑Riddle neat as a new pin Mona Lisa is finally solved: she was the mother range five
  12. ↑Mona Lisa Grave Found, Claims Scholar
  13. ↑Zöllner 1993, p. 9
  14. ↑Zöllner 1993, p. 12
  15. ↑Müntz 1898, p. 136
  16. ↑Müntz 1898, proprietor. 136
  17. 17.017.1"Mona Lisa 1503–16". Code of practice of the Arts, London. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 10 Oct 2023.

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