The Mona Lisa and a detail of the work
The recent confirmation of Leonardo’s presence at Pierfrancesco di Gropparello near Bobbio (Piacenza), discovered by a group of scientists led by Andrea Baucon of the University of Genoa and Gerolamo Lo Russo of the Natural History Museum of Piacenza, reinforces the theory in the Bobbiese background of the Mona Lisa. The researcher Carla Glori, author of the scientific theory that places the landscape behind the Mona Lisa in that of Bobbio, underlines this in a note seen from the Castle of Malaspina Dal Verme.
The studies that would confirm the researcher’s thesis
The studies of iconofossi (fossil traces of footprints of ancient creatures) reported by Ansa last month proved that the same stone forms were studied and reproduced by Leonardo in the Leicester Codex. I have received confirmation from paleontologists that the typical ichno fossils of Pierfrancesco are found in Bobbio, easily reached by Leonardo on a hump. I wrote in 2011 that this area was of great geological interest to Leonardo, but the recent discovery, published by Rips, a world-class journal specializing in geology, has absolute scientific merit, explains Carla Glori.
Leonardo in the Piacenza area
The researcher had recently published an article on the wall drawings of the Malaspina Dal Verme Castle dedicated to Jouster Galeazzo Sanseverino, patron and friend of Leonardo, assuming that the artist had overseen the project, at least on the spot. And from this castle his theory places the view of the landscape of the Mona Lisa identified in Bianca Giovanna Sforza, wife of Sanseverino. But Val Trebbia was also familiar to Leonardo at the table, because in his vineyard in Milan he cultivated the aromatic Candia Malvasia typical of Val Tidone, as revealed in 2015 by the DNA comparison on the native vine by the University of Agriculture of Milan. . Scientific evidence converges on the location of Leonardo in the Mona Lisa landscape. For the rest – adds the researcher – I trust in Leonardo’s sentence: Only the truth was a child of time.
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April 25, 2022 (Change April 25, 2022 | 20:11)
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