Bones found in Florence likely belong to 'Mona Lisa'

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Bones found in Florence likely belong to 'Mona Lisa'

FLORENCE: -- Experts think that bone fragments found at a monastery in Florence likely belong to the woman many people believe was immortalised in the “Mona Lisa”.

But the absence of a skull has thwarted their efforts to reconstruct the face of noblewoman Lisa Gherardini to compare it with the face Leonardo da Vinci depicted in one of the world’s most famous paintings.

-- euronews 2015-09-25

[stoneyboy]

But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues

You can tell by the way she smiles

Bob Dylan.

[spiritrace]

I wonder if her skull had that famous smile.....

[HenryB]

Ha Ha you believe this I have a bridge for you to buy

[7by7]

Summed up nicely on a BBC radio report:

"The bones may or may not belong to the woman who may or may not have posed for the painting!"

[Scott]

So, basically, they found some bones of a female who may or may not have lived around the time that the Mona Lisa was painted and she may or may not have been in the area where the painting was done.

I think a little more forensic work may be required on this case.