Word: giocondo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites, professor of art and esthetics at Antioch College, ended a twelve-year job of checking Vasari, announced that the woman was Isabella d'Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua. Of Isabella d'Este, "first lady...
...husband, to ask Cesare to excuse Leonardo. Until 1506 Leonardo worked in Florence, only no miles from Mantua. At any rate, sometime between 1499 and 1506, between his meeting with Isabella and his departure from Florence, Mona Lisa is supposed to have been painted. Was it of Lisa del Giocondo in Naples or of Isabella d'Este in Mantua...