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Lisa del Giocondo

1479 - 1542

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Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; 15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lisa del Giocondo has received more than 3,169,402 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Lisa del Giocondo is the 90th most popular painter (down from 7th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Italy (down from 296th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Painter.

Lisa del Giocondo is most famous for being the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lisa del Giocondo ranks 90 out of 1,421Before her are Francisco de Zurbarán, Paolo Uccello, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Max Ernst. After her are Filippo Lippi, Matthias Grünewald, Vittore Carpaccio, Andrei Rublev, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Claude Lorrain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1479, Lisa del Giocondo ranks 3Before her are Joanna of Castile and Hafsa Sultan. After her are Vasili III of Russia, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, Diego Columbus, Peter Henlein, Guru Amar Das, Francisco de Montejo, Ippolito d'Este, Vallabha, and Catherine of York. Among people deceased in 1542, Lisa del Giocondo ranks 2Before her is Catherine Howard. After her are James V of Scotland, 2nd Dalai Lama, Hernando de Soto, Lapu-Lapu, Dosso Dossi, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Thomas Wyatt, Sayyida al Hurra, Peter Henlein, and Cristóvão da Gama.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lisa del Giocondo ranks 300 out of 4,668Before her are Gaius Cassius Longinus (-87), Pope Alexander III (1100), Monica Vitti (1931), Aldo Moro (1916), Pope Gelasius I (410), and Pope Liberius (310). After her are Archytas (-428), Enrico Dandolo (1107), Pope Eugene II (780), Filippo Lippi (1406), Torquato Tasso (1544), and Pope John XII (937).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Lisa del Giocondo ranks 24Before her are Piero della Francesca (1415), Pietro Perugino (1446), Andrea Mantegna (1431), Fra Angelico (1400), Cimabue (1240), and Paolo Uccello (1475). After her are Filippo Lippi (1406), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Duccio (1255), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), and Canaletto (1697).