Art detective says female and male model used for Mona Lisa face

Art detective says female and male model used for Mona Lisa face, Mona Lisa's ambiguous smile draws millions of admirers from beyond the world, all acquisitive to see the art world's a lot of acclaimed changeable face. But is it?

An Italian art detective is arguing that analysis backs his abiding affirmation that Leonardo Da Vinci acclimated both a changeable and macho archetypal to actualize the acclaimed account that hangs in Paris' Louvre museum.

While the character of the woman is not certain, historians accept Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine cottony merchant Francesco del Giocondo, sat for Da Vinci for the painting.

But Silvano Vinceti, who active Italy's National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, says he acclimated bittersweet technology to appraise the painting and fabricated key allegation in its aboriginal layer.

"In that band we can see that she was not animated and blithesome but looked black and sad," he said, abacus the additional archetypal was Gian Giacomo Caprotti - Da Vinci's macho apprentice, accepted as Salai.

Using Photoshop, Vinceti compared the "Mona Lisa" face to added Da Vinci works Salai is believed to accept airish for, including "St John the Baptist".

"We accept acclimated all the paintings in which Leonardo acclimated Salai as a archetypal and compared them to the 'Mona Lisa' and assertive data accord perfectly; so he acclimated two models and added artistic data which came from his own imagination," he said.

"I accept that this goes with a adept allure of Leonardo's, that is, the accountable of androgyny. In added words, for Leonardo, the absolute being was a aggregate of a man and a woman."

Vinceti aswell bases his approach on claims by 16th Italian art historian and painter Giorgio Vasari that Gherardini's bedmate assassin clowns to try to accomplish her smile for the sitting.

Salai's name has in the accomplished been affiliated to the "Mona Lisa", but added historians accept absolved the claims. 
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