If it's a real-life place in the painting, you can visit it yourself. Like Giverny, where Monet lived and painted the beauties of his garden. Perhaps, for these famous painters, it was the opposite.

The Mona Lisa painting by Leonarodo di Vinci has been known to be a portiot of the real life Lisa Gherardini. The painting with the mysterious smile brings many to the Louvre.

But for her latest painting, a portrait of Benedict XVI in his life as pope emeritus, some objects could not be brought back to her studio in the historic center of Rome.

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As the 2024 edition of TEFAF opens to the public on March 9, the fair’s organizers and exhibitors hope to move past these vexing years, and prove that there’s no substitute for a real-life ...

The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was born on June 15, 1479, in Via Maggio, Republic of Florence and died July 15, 1542.

Rome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2022 / 07:03 am. Natalia Tsarkova, official portrait artist to the popes for more than 20 years, likes to work from real life.