{"title":"Leonardo, Mona Lisa and \"La Gioconda\". Reviewing the Evidence","authors":"J. Greenstein","doi":"10.2307/1483789","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Although the title La Gioconda appears on the Salai inventory and was later used at Fontainebleau, the case for accepting Vasari's claim that the painting is a portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo is not as strong as recent studies suggest. Critics who used the title before 1642 did not think that it referred to the surname of the sitter. A review of the evidence casts doubts on Vasari's credibility, but illuminates the unusual purpose of Leonardo's painting.","PeriodicalId":43492,"journal":{"name":"Artibus et Historiae","volume":"25 1","pages":"17-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1483789","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Artibus et Historiae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1483789","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Although the title La Gioconda appears on the Salai inventory and was later used at Fontainebleau, the case for accepting Vasari's claim that the painting is a portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo is not as strong as recent studies suggest. Critics who used the title before 1642 did not think that it referred to the surname of the sitter. A review of the evidence casts doubts on Vasari's credibility, but illuminates the unusual purpose of Leonardo's painting.
期刊介绍:
Artibus et Historiae is a journal dedicated to the visual arts, published by IRSA Publishing House. The lavishly illustrated articles cover a broad range of subjects, including photography and film, as well as traditional topics of scholarly art research. Artibus et Historiae particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies - art history in conjunction with other humanistic fields, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, or literature - and unconventional approaches. Thus it is hoped that the current trends in art history will be well represented in our issues. Artibus et Historiae appears twice a year, in hardback. The articles are in one of four languages: English, Italian, German, or French, at the author"s discretion.