Who is Mona Lisa? On this question there are at least 10 different answers can be found among them an extreme version, it is the artist himself in a woman's image. However, the most obvious and simple assumption still remains a well-documented: it is a portrait of Lisa's family Gherardino who became the wife of a prominent Florentine merchant Francesco del Gioconda, commissioned by the artist in 1503. History of writing beautifully painted canvases DS Merezhkovsky a book on Leonardo. The mystery of spiritual love and extraordinary, tipping all social boundaries, proximity brilliantly described by the highest authority in this matter: marriage Merezhkovsky and Zinaida still remains one of the most incredible designs spiritual union! And the fact that the artist did not give a picture of the customer after the sudden death of his wife, is somehow naturally clear and understandable. And also the fact that Leonardo until his death saw a picture of the unfinished and did not want to part with it. Merezhkovsky draws the scene visits the studio of Leonardo French King Francis I, in the custody of the old painter antiquated. Fascinated by the Mona Lisa, the king wished to buy it for big money. Leonardo refused! It was an unheard-of insolence! But the artist had promised to unsubscribe her in his will, the French crown. The King decided to forgive the survivor of the mind, as he thought, the old man, and the famous portrait in the end was at the Louvre.
