Monna Lisa

Proper noun

(the) Mona Lisa (plural Mona Lisas)

1. (with-definite-article) A portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci, widely considered to be the most famous painting in history.
   • For centuries, the Mona Lisa was a relatively obscure painting languishing in the private residences of kings—still a masterpiece, to be sure, but only one among many. Even when it was moved to the Louvre, after the French Revolution, it did not attract as much attention as the works of other...2011, Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious, Crown Business, →ISBN, page 56
2. The subject of the painting, Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini (1479–1542).
   • Beltraffio knew that she was a Napoletana, of an ancient family, the daughter of Antonio Gerardini, a grandee who had at one time been wealthy, but who had become ruined during the French invasion of 1495; and the wife of the Florentine citizen, Francesco dell' Giocondo, who had married Mona Lisa...1961, Orville Prescott, The Undying Past, page 304

   Synonyms:

   Gioconda, Joconde

See all 4 meanings of Mona Lisa