Lisa del Giocondo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lisa del Giocondo

subject of the Mona Lisa

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1479

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1542

Profession: model

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: ['li?za del d?o'kondo]; née Gherardini [gerar'di?ni]; June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life.
Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life.
Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior. Centuries after Lisa's death, the Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman.
Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization.
In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa.



Alternative names	Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo
Description	Italian painter, engineer, astronomer, philosopher, anatomist and mathematician
Date of birth/death	15 April 1452	2 May 1519
Location of birth/death	Anchiano	Clos Lucé
Work period	from 1466 until 1519 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1466-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1519-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Florence (1466–1482), Milan (1483–1499), Mantua (1499), Venice (1500), Florence (1500–1506), Milan (1506–1513), Florence (1507–1508), Rome (1513–1516), Amboise (1513–1518)
Authority control	: Q762 VIAF: 24604287 ISNI: 0000 0001 2124 423X ULAN: 500010879 LCCN: n79034525 NLA: 35964654 WorldCat