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Lisa del Giocondo
Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542), was an Italian noblewoman.
Early life[edit | edit source]
Lisa was born in Via Maggio. As the eldest of the family's seven children, Lisa had three sisters, one of whom was named Ginerva, and three brothers, Giovangualberto, Francesco, and Noldo.
Marriage and later life[edit | edit source]
At the age of fifteen she married Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a cloth and silk merchant in 1495. She had five children: Piero, Piera, Camilla, Marietta, and Andrea.[1]
Death[edit | edit source]
Francesco died in the plague of 1538, Lisa also went to live in that monastery. Lisa may have lived until at least 1551.[2]
Mona Lisa[edit | edit source]
Main article: Mona Lisa
Lisa del Giocondo probably modeled for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa portrait. This traditional view, based on Giorgio Vasari and Antonio de Beatis, was confirmed in 2008 by the discovery of a handwritten note in an incunabula of the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (signature D 7620 qt. INC), in which the Florentine official Agostino Vespucci reported in October 1503 about a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo by Leonardo.