Mona Lisa

After many years of working on this masterpiece, I have finally finished. The Mona Lisa is a painting of a woman named Lisa Gherardini whose husband, Francesco Del Giocondo, requested me to paint a portrait of her. Lisa’s family was very well-known through Tuscany and Florence. Her husband was a very wealthy silk merchant, and they asked me to paint the painting to celebrate their home’s completion and the birth of their second son.