The Gioconda of Leonardo da Vinci still at the center of the investigations scholars: the most famous portrait in history has always been marked by enigmas and mysteries, and there are several theories that over the years have tried to reveal the secrets of Leonardo’s masterpiece. Starting fromidentity of the Mona Lisanever revealed by the genius of the Italian Renaissance.
According to the most widespread theory, the painting represents the noblewoman Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo – hence the name “Gioconda”. But several studies are emerging that seem to point to a different solution for the rebus of the Mona Lisa.
Who is the Mona Lisa? Leonardo’s enigma
According to the research of the scholar Teodoro Bresciaphilosopher and anthropologist, the woman represented in Leonardo’s masterpiece would not be Lisa Gherardini, but Giovanna Bianca Sforzathe beloved daughter of Ludovico il Moro who died at the age of 13 and who lived in the Castle of Vigevano.
It is discussed in a newly published book entitled “A rebus on the Mona Lisa. Between the two branches of Lake Como “: according to the author, PhD at the University of Bari, the identity of the Mona Lisa would be revealed by a rebus hidden in the same painting.
“This new study”, explains Brescia, “starts from the first research of the art scholar Silvano Vinceti which in 2010 identifies in the painting two pairs of letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa and a pair of numbers under the bridge behind her “.
The discovery of a rebus inside the Mona Lisa is due to the same Vinceti who recently hypothesized the existence of a second Mona Lisa, younger and more beautiful than the one on display in the Louvreand with a melancholy smile.
The idea that there may be a hidden rebus inside the portrait is quite consistent with what we know of Leonardo’s life: they have in fact been found oltre 170 things written by the genius of Vinci, he remembers Brescia in his publications, to delight Ludovico il Moro and his court.
According to the professor’s research Carla Gorifrom the rebus hidden in the eyes of Mona Lisa can be identified the city that is the background to the portrait: under the bridge to the right of the Mona Lisa it is written 72which would denote the bridge of Bobbiocollapsed and rebuilt in 1472.
According to the research of Brescia, however, Bobbio has nothing to do with it: the answer to the most debated enigma, among those that accompany the events of the painting, is hidden in the puzzle of the Mona Lisa. the true identity of the Mona Lisa.
Solved the puzzle of the Mona Lisa
According to Professor Gori’s study, the puzzle identified within the painting would be composed of the characters G, S is 72 – which would indicate respectively the identity of the woman and the place represented in the painting. G and S would in fact stand for Giovanna (Bianca) Sforza, while the number 72 would indicate the historical story of the Bobbio bridge.
According to the new research by Teodoro Brescia – already known for having revealed several unpublished details in Leonardo’s Last Supper – the characters identified they should be read in the mirror: we know that Leonardo wrote in a mirror image, and even the rebus should be read following this principle.
In the new publication, the scholar delves into a discovery that he anticipated in an article that appeared in 2019 in ‘Nexus New Times’. Interviewed on that occasion by ‘La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno’, Brescia explained the Mona Lisa puzzle as follows: “I came to the conclusion that the characters are more precisely VL, LE (or B) and 72. Mirrored become JV, BJ and SF”.
The whole thing must be read considering the inevitable wear of the surface but above all the nature of the rebus, that is the close connection of letters and pictures: “JV in the right eye, placed on the rings (rings) of the iris, becomes Jvanella”, Explains Brescia, while“ BJ in the left eye, placed on the ancilla (pupil) becomes Bjancilla“. The mirrored abbreviation SF under the bridge, which in other studies had been read as 72, becomes Sforza: it is found on the surface of the water, in the Renaissance language “orza”.
The solution of the rebus it is served as follows: Jvanella Bjancilla Sforza would be none other than little Giovanna Bianca Sforza. According to Professor Gori, whose investigations agree with those of Brescia at least as regards the identity of Mona Lisa, Leonardo may have tried to hide the true identity of the woman by aging her features.
This would have allowed Ludovico il Moro – struck by the untimely loss of his beloved daughter Bianca and the defeat on the field – to take the beloved portrait with him when he was forced to flee to France.
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