Saturday, 10 August 2013

Open old cemetery in Italy in search of her Mona Lisa


Researchers open the old cemetery is due to several centuries in Florence yesterday, "Friday" in search of the remains may confirm the identity of the woman who immortalized the painter Leonardo DaVinci her mysterious smile in his famous Mona Lisa painting.

The researchers drilled in the floor of the stone church built over the tomb of the silk merchant family in Florence Francesco del Gioconda, who believed that the DaVinci drawing his wife, Lisa Gherardini, in the sixteenth century.

And numerous theories about the character of Mona Lisa true is that Silvano Vingsty writer and researcher who heads the National Committee to support the historical and cultural heritage plans to conduct DNA tests on bones found in the tomb and try to gain access to DNA matching her from the remains of three women buried in a nearby convent.

Historians say that Gherardini and called her name after marriage "Gioconda" on the plate Mona Lisa in Italy, she spent her last years in the monastery of St. Ursula, where the journey began search for bones in the past year.

The Vingsty believe that to Lisa Gherardini one of the three women Almedfonat the monastery.

The Vingsty hopes that some of the bones in the tomb, located down the church for someone with which link blood Bmoneliza the inspirational DaVinci and that is probably her son Piero.

After matching DNA Vingsty says he can draw a picture of the face of the skeleton in St. Ursula and compared the painting, which attracts millions of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris every year. The museum says that the painting probably painted between 1503 and 1506.

And said Vingsty "while we find a correspondence between the DNA of the mother and Son Chenkchw of the Mona Lisa is."

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