The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan – opening last week to coincide with the beginning of the Milan Expo on 1 May – is not to be missed, even if the show misses some opportunities itself. Unfortunately pipped to the post by London’s Leonardo exhibition just three years ago, which actually…
Italian art experts and archeologists are getting close to identifying the skeleton of the presumed sitter for Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa. It is generally believed that the model was Lisa Del Giocondo, wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, who died in Saint Ursula’s convent in Florence in the mid-16th century. A skeleton exhumed in 2012…
The Sunday Times’ Waldemar Januszczak on the National Gallery‘s star attractions in the Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan exhibition: The show’s central gallery is devoted to another dramatic face-off, between two versions of the Virgin of the Rocks, one from the Louvre, the other from the National Gallery, united here for the first…
A group of Italians want the Mona Lisa back in Florence in 2013 and plan to gather 100,000 signatures to back their campaign. The petition for the Louvre to loan the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece has been launched by the National Committee for Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage together with the Province of Florence. Organizers…
The hunt is set to start for the tomb and possible remains of the model for Leonardo’s Mona Lisa in an ex-convent in her home town, Florence. announces Italy’s news service ANSA. Giuseppe Pallanti, a researcher on the Tuscan countries from XV to XVIII centuries who’s written a book called ‘La vera identità della Gioconda’ Un…
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