Was Mona Lisa a real person?

Question: Was Mona Lisa a real person!?

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Yes, her name was Lisa Giocanda(sp!?), it is now believed her husband had commissioned her portrait because they had just had a baby!. The painting was never finished, but you can kind of see going around her neck is a white scarf, which was a cultural symbol for having successfully given birth, they didn't have hospitals and modern medicine, so a lot of women died giving birth!.
Another sign that she had recently given birth is her hands, they are puffy!. Sometimes women have water retention problems when they are pregnant, and the Mona Lisa's hands are probably puffy as a left over result of that!.

A lot of people assume and believe she had an affair with Da Vinci, which is completely bogus!. She was an intelligent woman and Leonardo enjoyed her company, they apparently had some pretty great conversations, but they never had a sexual relationship!. Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual!.

When he stopped working on this piece, he never gave it to the man he commissioned it for because he liked it so much!.(he did this a few times, and had a lot of trouble finishing commissions) Instead he kept it and brought it with him wherever he moved, which is why it ended up in the Louvre in Paris, even though it had been painted in Florence, Italy!.

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I don't think any one will ever Truly know!. Leonardo would have definitely worked from a model so she would have had to be a real person, but he could have taken different traits from different people and mixed them into one painting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

She is also known as La Gioconda [Lisa de Giocondo], the wife of Francesco del Giocondo!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, she did exist!. But she wasn't royalty or anyone important, which is why it's a mystery as to who exactly she was!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

According to new information , yes !.Www@QuestionHome@Com