The Mona Lisa has to be the most famous painting in the world and is somehow also shrouded by some mystery. says jpost.com, According to the only known historical evidence by biographer Giorgio Vasari, the Mona Lisa was commissioned by a merchant named Jacondo in 1503 while in Florence. Artist Leonardo da Vinci finished the painting either in 1506 or 1507.

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However, an art historian has come up with claims that according to some documents, he has been able to unravel one of the mysteries surrounding the painting: Where is she?

Italian art historian Silvano Vinceti, after working with the La Rocca cultural association and based on new historical documents and comparisons of different photographs of the painting, claims to have identified the bridge seen in the background of the Mona Lisa. 

"It is the Romito Etruscan-Roman bridge, also known as Ponte di Valle, located in the municipality of Laterina in the province of Arezzo," Vinceti told the news outlet ANSA, referring to a bridge over the Arno River in Tuscany.

"Only one arch remains of the bridge today, but in the period between 1501 and 1503 the bridge was functioning and it was very busy, as shown by a document on the state of assets on Medici family properties, found in the state archives of Florence."

In the past, people had assumed the bridge in the Mona Lisa was the Ponte Buriano bridge in Arezzo, or the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Bobbio in the Piacenza province.

But these don't match up to the bridge seen in the picture. But the Ponte di Valle, with its four arches instead of six or seven like the others, is a closer match.

"The distinctive form of the Arno along that stretch of territory corresponds to what Leonardo portrayed in the landscape to the left of the noblewoman depicted in the famous painting," Vinceti told ASNA.

These comparisons were possible thanks to the use of drones to better analyze the landscape around the bridge.  While the bridge is now largely collapsed, it once served as an important shortcut between Florence and Fiesole, the latter being a place where da Vinci was known to often visit, staying alongside his uncle. However, not everyone agrees with this conclusion, with several art historians arguing that da Vinci never intended to paint any specific bridge.

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