The Mona Lisa painting is one of the most mysterious works of art that ever existed. This enigmatic portrait was painted in the 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda, as it is believed to represent Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco de Giocondo. It is perhaps the most famous painting in the world. See more
Monna is the abbreviation for Madonna (lady) in Italian. King Francis I of France acquired it in the 16th century. And since then it has been in France; it is exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Although the official title according to the Louvre Museum is : Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The identity of the woman painted by Leonardo da Vinci (if she was a woman) is not known with certainty. Several theories have been put forward, but none of them are completely certain, one hypothesis tells us that the woman was the wife of a Florentine merchant. Was she Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo?...
The expression on her face and the smile on the Mona Lisa's face have made a lot of people talk about her, giving rise to ideas that she keeps hidden, messages that Da Vinci encrypted, being esoteric and said to be from a freemason. The enigmatic smile seems to be an optical illusion, because the effect obtained is that the smile disappears when you look at it directly and straight ahead, and reappears when your eyes are fixed on other parts of the image. It is curious that you don't know, and can't tell, whether the Mona Lisa has a hard and bitter look in her eyes, or whether she is smiling. It is said that her hands, one on top of the other on her belly, may suggest that the woman was pregnant. The eyes seem to be keeping a secret ...
Research on her eyes has found numbers and initials: the right eye reads "LV" and the left eye "CE" apparently although there is some doubt that the E is a B or an S. In the background landscape, where the bridge is located, it reads: 72. The message of these secret codes has not been revealed, although some believe that the previous number refers to events related to the background bridge in the painting .
More than five hundred years after it was painted, the Mona Lisa still makes us wonder if Da Vinci did not include messages in the work that we do not know about. The Mona Lisa has inspired many films and books, including Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code" which mixes reality and fiction, taking conspiracy theories to a level of suspense that has also touched the subject of the illuminati. The mystery will continue...