Mona Lisa’s Grave Found, Skeleton Uncovered

Mona Lisa’s Grave Found, Skeleton 

Uncovered

FLORENCE:  May 29, 2011, the team of researchers in art and history joined with archaeologists has finally unearthed the skeleton they believed could be the 500 year-old remains of Mona Lisa the model who may have posed for Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, a news 
report said.

The search for Mona Lisa’s tomb or grave was launched by a team of researchers using advance radar technology in Florence in April this year. 


The excavation was carried out in the convent of Saint Orsola where Lisa Gherardini was buried after her death at the age of 63 in July 1542. She was the wife of a silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

Giorgio Gruppioni, an archaeology professor from the University of Bologna and coordinator of the excavation said that they have unearthed a skeleton of an adult woman.

Gruppioni said "The skull and pelvis have been crushed by the weight of the ground,"

Once the parts of skeleton are collected safely, the experts will try to reconstruct and recreate to determine what the women looked like.

The identity of the enigmatic Mona Lisa remains one of the great mysteries. In February, Silvano Vinceti, the Italian art historian has claimed that that the model in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece was one of his male muses, a young man named Gian Giacomo Caprotti who’s face had  similarities to those of Mona Lisa and the model was not Lisa Gherardini.