By 1514 - 1515 years. It includes the creation of a masterpiece of the great masters - "Mona Lisa."Until recently, the thought that this portrait was painted much earlier, in Florence, about 1503 people believed the story of Vasari, who wrote: "Took Leonardo perform for Francesco del Giocondo a portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife, and, having worked on it for four years, nedovershennym left him. This work is now the French king at Fontainebleau. Incidentally, Leonardo resorted to the following trick: since Madonna Lisa was very beautiful, during the portrait writings he kept the people who play the lyre and sang, and there were always fools who supported it fun and removes melancholy, which is usually reported painting portraits performed. " This whole story is wrong from beginning to end. According to Venturi, "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa later, was the creation of novelist fantasy, Arezzo biographer, Giorgio Vasari." Venturi in 1925 suggested that the "Mona Lisa" - a portrait of the Duchess Costanza d'Avalos, the widow Federigo del Balz, sung in a little poem Eneo Irpino, mentions of her portrait painted by Leonardo. Costanza was the mistress of Giuliano de 'Medici, who after marriage with Filiberto of Savoy gave back portrait of Leonardo. Most recently Pedretti put forward a new hypothesis: the Louvre portrait depicts the widow of Giovanni Antonio Brandao named Pachifika, who was also the mistress of Giuliano de 'Medici, and bore him a son Ippolito in 1511Whatever it was, vazarievskaya version is in doubt simply because does not explain why the portrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo was left in the hands of Leonardo, and he was taken away to France.
This whole story is wrong from beginning to end. According to Venturi, "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa later, was the creation of novelist fantasy, Arezzo biographer, Giorgio Vasari." Venturi in 1925 suggested that the "Mona Lisa" - a portrait of the Duchess Costanza d'Avalos, the widow Federigo del Balz, sung in a little poem Eneo Irpino, mentions of her portrait painted by Leonardo. Costanza was the mistress of Giuliano de 'Medici, who after marriage with Filiberto of Savoy gave back portrait of Leonardo.
Most recently Pedretti put forward a new hypothesis: the Louvre portrait depicts the widow of Giovanni Antonio Brandao named Pachifika, who was also the mistress of Giuliano de 'Medici, and bore him a son Ippolito in 1511Whatever it was, vazarievskaya version is in doubt simply because does not explain why the portrait of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo was left in the hands of Leonardo, and he was taken away to France.