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Scientists are to finding the of the model for the Mona Lisa in an old in Florence, Italy. They believe the of Lisa Gioconda, the wife of a 16th-century , is there. Silvano Vinceti, of an Italian cultural group, plans to test the DNA of the bones to find out if she is the woman that famous smile. Mr Vinceti will then use a computer program to make a face from the skull and it to the painting.

Leonardo da Vinci's painting has art experts and people. Vinceti said that for , historians have had many about the mysterious woman. He asks whether Gioconda was the for the Mona Lisa or was it another model, or just the painter's . A geologist said the research team is because there are many bones all in order. They also have a saying they to the Gioconda family.

 
 

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