Saturday, April 30, 2011
Mona Lisa's Bones Should Be Left Alone, Begs Princess Descended From Leonardo's Muse
Besides picking out Philip Treacy hats to wear to certain royal weddings, what do princesses really have on their plates these days? Well, in Italy, Natalia Guicciardini Strozzi -- princess, actress, winemaker, and former ballerina -- is leading the charge in opposition to plans to exhume the remains of Lisa Gherardini, Strozzi's forebear and the Renaissance Florentine woman whom many believe to be the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." (The woman is better known as Lisa del Giocondo, thanks to her early marriage to a merchant of that surname.) Click here.
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