The story of a U.S. soldier missing in the Tuscan mountains since 1944 has been resolved decades later, linking Florence to the wider memory of the Allied campaign that helped liberate Italy.
Carbon-14 tests could confirm Mona Lisa original model
Carbon-14 results on the remains of a woman thought to have sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting are due within days. Art historical scholars now believe that model was Lisa Gherardini, wife to the merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, who died in the Florence convent on July 15, 1542.
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