[MR] Wikipedia: The Real Mona Lisa

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

On this date in 1542, Lisa del Giocondo passed away at the Convent of
Sant'Orsola in Florence. Or maybe she didn't. Some authorities claim she
lived until 1551. In any case, Lisa was an otherwise typical middle class
Renaissance Italian woman of no particular accomplishment or distinction,
had her husband not commissioned a portrait of her from Leonardo da Vinci:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_del_Giocondo

As you may have gathered from the subject line, Lisa is the same woman who
sat for the famous painting commonly known as The Mona Lisa, or La Joconde
by the French. How the painting came to be in France is explained by this
bio sketch of Leonardo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci .

More on the painting itself can be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa .

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆