Lisa del Giocondo

It's because of Paul.

They gave her a whole Simpsons episode where she saves Lisa at the end.

It's like a massive...

My man's

I'm a bopper, yeah.

No, the painting.

Oh, Mona Lisa.

No, Mona Lisa.

Dude, they're played by the same person.

How about Lisa from The Simpsons? We can't have a cartoon as the best ever Lisa, surely? How about Lisa Del Giocondo? I mean, I don't know about her.

I heard she was a bit of a moaner.

Kind of explains that smile, I guess.

Is-

The Mona Lisa

... exactly.

Oh.

So this is very interesting, is that in France, if you talk about La Mona Lisa, we wouldn't necessarily know what you're-- Well, we would, if you are, um, cul- cultured, you know, you would know.

But not everybody would know who La, uh, who La Mona Lisa is.

We refer to the Mona Lisa in France as La Joconde.

Okay?

But seriously, the real story is actually pretty interesting because we know who the Mona Lisa probably was, but surprisingly little about her actual personality or private life.

So who was the Mona Lisa? The woman in the famous painting is widely identified as Lisa Gherardini, an Italian woman born in 1479 in Florence.

Her husband, Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant.

Her social status, she came from a respectable Florentine family and married into a wealthy merchant household.

The alleged scandal.

There have been theories that the portrait depicts another woman, including a possible lover of a Medici prince, but those theories are unproven.

The established identification remains Lisa Gherardini.

Oh, my God.

He was painting the portrait of some rich guy's trophy wife.

Her name was Lisa del Giocondo.

We know her better as Mona Lisa.

So, Leonardo didn't need to be jealous, but he didn't know that, so he was a little bit jealous.