Mona Lisa, WAS A MAN!

MrMatisse

Turns out the famous 'woman' in the painting was in fact a young lad.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8299190/Mona-Lisa-was-a-boy.html


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Most scholars believe Leonardo’s most famous portrait depicts Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant.

But Silvano Vinceti, the head of a team of researchers, believes instead that the painting was inspired by Gian Giacomo Caprotti, who began working with the Renaissance master as a child and became one of his most trusted companions.

He said several of Leonardo’s works, including two paintings of St John the Baptist and a lesser-known drawing called “Angel Incarnate,” were based on Caprotti.

All of them portray a slim, rather effeminate youth with curly hair.

There were striking similarities between those works and that of the Mona Lisa, particularly in the depiction of mouths and noses, said Mr Vinceti, the head of the National Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.
“Salai was a favourite model for Leonardo,” he said. “Leonardo certainly inserted characteristics of Salai in the ... Mona Lisa.”

Caprotti is thought to have entered Leonardo’s household around 1490, when he was about 10 years old.

Working as Leonardo’s assistant for the next 20 years, he acquired the nickname Salai, or Little Devil. He was the subject of several erotic drawings produced by the Renaissance genius.

“Salai was very handsome and probably Leonardo’s lover,” said Mr Vinceti. “He stole from Leonardo and caused him many problems, but the artist always forgave him.”

Other art historians were sceptical about the theory, however.

Pietro Marani, a Leonardo authority and the author of several books on the artist, called the theory “groundless.”

Previous scholars have claimed that Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa as a disguised self-portrait, or based the work, with its famously enigmatic smile, on his mother.

phasers

So Da Vinci was a pedo. Huh.

Mr. Manager

He was gay!?

The_Kew_Tour

Fair ****s to Di Vinci for getting away with that

4zn76tysfajdxp

MrMatisse wrote: »

Turns out the famous 'woman' in the painting was in fact a young lad.

Why is there cleavage then?

flyton5

Tristian Polite Fern wrote: »

Why is there cleavage then?

Probably something to do with genetically modified chickens...

karlog

Didn't know they did boob jobs back in those times.

The_Kew_Tour

Tristian Polite Fern wrote: »

Why is there cleavage then?

Man Boobs

Captain_Generic

Tristian Polite Fern wrote: »

Why is there cleavage then?

Another of his wondrous inventions

kfallon

She/he was an ugly cnut anyway!

Asphyxia

I heard this today pretty mad story alright

orourkeda

Mona the tranny

chordtype

PICS or GTFO

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

You're only just realising this now???!

One of the popular theories is that it's a self portrait of sorts of Da Vinci in drag. Oh, and for the pedo haters, the model for Michealangelo's Daivd is rumoured to be a 14 year old boy.

And this one's in our own National gallery!!! JOOOOEEEEEEEEE???????????

Nodin

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Another of his wondrous inventions

He invented teh ghey?

GLaDOS

Mona Lisa 'was a boy’

Quotation marks: learn them, use them, love them.

It's one guys claim.

goose2005

I have a wild, insane theory that the Mona Lisa is actually a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

strobe

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Quotation marks: learn them, use them, love them.

It's one guys claim.

He's not the first guy to claim it either. It's hardly ground breaking stuff. I heard this theory for the first time on the Discovery channel when I was about 13. It's probably been doing the rounds for a hundred years. That doesn't mean there is any truth to it of course.

ejmaztec

A load of balls

brianthebard

Glad I never fapped to it so.

Yakult

all probabilities, thought to be's etc.


Unless theirs solid evidence its really a pointless article which was probably done 100 times in the last 50 years without any solid proof. even with solid evidence I couldnt care lol.

MaybeLogic

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance,
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Mona,
M-o-n-a Mona

Pompey Magnus

Also his The Last Supper has a hidden musical arrangement, using the hands of the disciples and the bread five parallel lines can be drawn through the painting, just like the five lines of a musical staff, the hands and bread can then be added to the staff as notes, when played from right to left (Da Vinci always wrote in this way) a short piece can be played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7TZc079go

TheZohanS

chordtype wrote: »

PICS or GTFO

It's true.

Links234

Yeah, this is hardly news really. it could be perfectly true, but who knows? wouldn't be surprising anyway

Howard the Duck

Maybe all the old paintings of women were in fact of men in drag. That might explain why they are all ugly.

biko

But Silvano Vinceti, the head of a team of researchers, believes instead that the painting was inspired by Gian Giacomo Caprotti,

FACT!

Blondini

MrMatisse wrote: »

Turns out the famous 'woman' in the painting was in fact a young lad.
:eek:

Don't matter . I'd still smash that ...

ArtSmart

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Also his The Last Supper has a hidden musical arrangement, using the hands of the disciples and the bread five parallel lines can be drawn through the painting, just like the five lines of a musical staff, the hands and bread can then be added to the staff as notes, when played from right to left (Da Vinci always wrote in this way) a short piece can be played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7TZc079go

isnt that the music from third encounters of the worse kind?

tommy21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOIEGz7o_s

Captain_Generic

And not just any man

Captain Darling

Fuzzy wuzzy was a woman?!

Das Kitty

MrMatisse wrote: »

Turns out the famous 'woman' in the painting was in fact a young lad.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8299190/Mona-Lisa-was-a-boy.html


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Matisse trying to defame DaVinci. Nerd lulz.

old_aussie

It's all smoke and mirrors.

Metallergy

smile! you're the motivation for a bob hoskins movie. he who's being entertained by 4 shemales in manila, as we type.