The portrait of the Mona Lisa is one of the artworks most recognized on the planet, which still causes a lot of intrigue in the artistic community.
One of the secrets that the box Leonardo da Vinci What he kept was which city appears in the landscape while the enigmatic muse poses for the painter.
However, one geologist I could have discovered which Italian city it is. This could be a light to finally determine which was the place that Leonardo wanted to immortalize in his painting, but it would also destroy other theories that indicate that the artist took the landscape out of its imagination.
Where is the landscape that appears in the Mona Lisa painting?
According to the historian and geologist, Ann Pizzorussoexpert in Renaissance artthe landscape of the Gioconda is Lake Como, in the city of Leccoin the region of LombardyItaly.
Pizzrusso explained in an interview for The Guardian the meaning of this discovery and how it is practically irrefutable that it is this place.
“I’m very excited about this. I really feel like it’s a home run. We know that he spent a lot of time exploring the Lecco area and the territory further north,” said the expert.
Ann Pizzorusso concentrated her observations on documents from Da Vinci and combined them with his knowledge of Geology to determine his discovery.
He related the bridge of the Mona Lisathe mountains and the lake with the Azzone Visconti bridge of 14th century Lecco, the southwestern Alps and Lake Garlate, where the painter It would have been 500 years ago.
“You can give this image to any geologist in the world and they will say what I say about Lecco. Even someone who is not a geologist can now see the similarities,” the geologist said.
Regarding theories of others historians who base their predictions on trying to identify the bridge in the painting, Ann mentioned that basing it on bridges is imprecise, since at the time of Da Vinci many cities of Europe They had extremely similar structures.
“Everyone talks about the bridge and no one talks about Geology. “Geologists do not look at paintings and art historians do not look at geology,” said Pizzorusso.
