Bones found in Florence likely belong to 'Mona Lisa'

Bones found in Florence likely belong to 'Mona Lisa'
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Experts think that bone fragments found at a monastery in Florence likely belong to the woman many people believe was immortalised in the “Mona

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Experts think that bone fragments found at a monastery in Florence likely belong to the woman many people believe was immortalised in the “Mona Lisa”.

But the absence of a skull has thwarted their efforts to reconstruct the face of noblewoman Lisa Gherardini to compare it with the face Leonardo da Vinci depicted in one of the world’s most famous paintings.

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