The most popular and valuable painting in the world is one of the only four portraits done by the Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci: the Mona Lisa, a world-famous masterpiece of the Italian Reinassance and a can’t miss symbol of Paris. Leonardo da Vinci started the artwork on commission by the nobleman Francesco Di Bartolomeo Del Giocondo, who lived in Florence in the early 1500s.

What would become the most enigmatic and iconic painting in the world was conceived as the portrait of his future wife, Lisa Gherardini, born in an aristoctratic and influent family from Florence, to later become “La Gioconda” after their marriage: especially in ltaly and France, the portrait is particularly known with this name. In greater detail, the title “Mona Lisa” was given after the first name of Del Giocondo’s wife, whereas the attribute “Mona” came from the Latin word “Mea domina”, that simply means “My Lady”.