"You are going to hate what I have to tell you about the Mona Lisa," the distinguished art historian Rab Hatfield declared when we met several years ago in Florence. "I am 99.9 percent certain that the woman we see in the Louvre is not who you think she is." Immersed in research on Mona (Madame) Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, Leonardo da Vinci's assumed model, I took a deep breath. If he was right, I would end up with the story of the greatest case of mistaken identity in the history of art. A fe...
"You are going to hate what I have to tell you about the Mona Lisa," the distinguished art historian Rab Hatfield declared when we met several years ago in Florence. "I am 99.9 percent certain that the woman we see in the Louvre is not who you think she is." Immersed in research on Mona (Madame) Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, Leonardo da Vinci's assumed model, I took a deep breath. If he was right, I would end up with the story of the greatest case of mistaken identity in the history of art. A fe...
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