Artwork Title: Gioconda (copy of Museo del Prado)

Gioconda (copy of Museo del Prado), 1503-1516

Francesco Melzi

Some sites attribute this to Workshop of Leonardo Da Vinci. The copy of the Mona Lisa is a painting of the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa (held by the Louvre Museum, Paris). The copy painting has been displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid (Spain) since 1819, but was considered for decades a worthless copy. However, after its restoration in 2012, the Prado's Mona Lisa was claimed to be the earliest replica of Leonardo's masterpiece. Although there are dozens of surviving replicas of Mona Lisa from the 16th and 17th centuries, the Prado's Mona Lisa is said to be, scientifically, the version with the most historical value. Furthermore, the replica was discovered to be possibly painted simultaneously by a student of Leonardo in the same studio where da Vinci painted his own Mona Lisa. Among the pupils of Leonardo, Salaì or Francesco Melzi are the most plausible authors of the Prado's version... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado%27s_version))
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