FLORENCE, ITALY – DNA test on family could confirm Mona Lisa model’s identity. On April 29, 2014 Italian experts will be taking DNA samples from the remains of family members of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo at a family tomb inside Florence’s Santissima Annunziata church to determine whether she was the sitter for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Art historians believe that model was Lisa Del Giocondo dé Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, who died in a convent in the Tuscan capital in the mid-16th century.
The samples will be taken by forensic anthropologists Giorgio Gruppioni and Antonio Moretti together with experts who are testing bones taken at a convent in the Tuscan capital.
The skeleton’s DNA will be compared with that about to be taken from the remains of Gherardini’s children. If there is a match, the woman portrayed by the Renaissance master, will be identified definitely.
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