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Lisa del Giocondo (15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and a member of the Gherardini family from Florence. She was the model for the Mona Lisa portrait. The portrait was commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance.
It shows Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo – hence her Italian name La Gioconda and her French name La Joconde.
Provenance. Timeline of the ‘Earlier Mona Lisa‘. 1452: Birth of Leonardo da Vinci in Anchiano near Vinci, just outside Florence, Italy. 1479: Birth of Lisa Camilla Gherardini (later Mona Lisa del Giocondo) in via Sguazza, Florence. 1500: Leonardo returns to Florence from Milan, via Mantua and Venice.
