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Brief Previews of proof of "Mona Lisa's" actual identity

as being most probably "Caterina" Leonardo's Mother

The 500 Year enigma of the actual identity of the Louvre's"Mona Lisa" portrait ,can now be proven to be almost certainly the young "Caterina" Mother of Leonardo and absolutely not "Lisa del Giocondo" (LisaGherardini), because on its original deep subsurface ressearch images show the same lady, but at 60+ years old,

from circa 1493 Milan, which Leonardo later

rejuvenated c.1503 in Florence to the image now on the surface. "Lisa" was only 23 years old in Florence in c.1503 which that lady isn't. This was originally clearly an older woman, proving it was never was the young Lisa del Giocondo. Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" portrait

was another painting of the 23 year old "Lisa", which has been lost. Latest research further confirmed that the other claimed "Young Mona Lisa" also has that same 60+ Older Lady on its original Sub surface, providing a second definitive verification that this particular Lady was never the 23 year old "Lisa del Giocondo""

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Some decades past on a research study sojourn of the Museums and Great Houses

of Europe and United Kingdom including the Montmatre precinct for a Sitting.

Subsurface scanning mis-titled "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre and Young Mona Lisa" in a Swiss Collection have the same "Old Woman" on their respective subsurfaces, as evidenced above. That "Old Woman" is almost certainly the 63 Year old "Caterina" Leonardo's

Mother, just before her death, whom Leonardo

painted in Milan c.1493 and later rejuvenated for posterity in her "Prime" in Florence c.1503. His portrait of "Lisa Giocondo" is lost and was never this portrait.

Leonardo's close companion "Salai"made his version

of the same "Old Lady" at the same time as Leonardo

in circa 1493 Milan, his version was also rejuvenated

c.1503 in Florence, but by a better artist than Salai probably Melzi, with oversight/possible assistance

from Leonardo. The presence of this "Old Woman" actually extant today beneath the surface of both

these Paintings is the ultimate evidence that neither work was ever a portrait of the 23 year old "Mona

Lisa", or Lisa Gherardini-Giocondo, but was instead either "Caterina" or an "Unknown Milanese lady".

However due to this Lady's close physiognomic similaries to Leonardo's own face and the fact he closely cherished it and it never left his possession,

on all the new facts and evidence it's more certainly "Caterina" Leonardo's Mother and on Age alone it absolutely cannot be the young "Lisa Giocondo"

In time other's technology will confirm these facts

The two versions corroborate each other.

The style of the original "Old Lady's" portrait on the Subsurface of "The Young Mona Lisa" is almost certainly that of "Salai", who was Leonardo's Milan companion in 1493. Here is another work by him-Note the quite typical Androgenous appearance of his subjects. Compare also the similar Mouths, Eyes and overall modelling of each.

The fact that Leonardo's DNA and physiognomy closely matches that of this Lady in a multitude of respects, including head shape, forehead, hair colouring, many of their matched distinctive facial features, which appear to have dominated over those of his Father, Ser Piero da Vinci, further verify this is actually Leonardo's Mother "Caterina" as confirmed by this significant "Primary Source Biological Evidence" and not her mistaken title as the wife of del Giocondo, the Slave & Silk Trading Merchant from Florence the former Lisa Gherardini -Lisa del Giocondo, whom Leonardo painted Circa 1503, which is lost.

Thus the incontavertable definitive evidence which actually exists today on the Subsurface of the mistitled "Portrait of a Lady" in the Louvre, proves that Leonardo first painted this older 65+ Lady, prior to later "rejuvenating" the same Lady to about 35 years of age. Why would he have done this if it was the young 23 year old former "Lisa Gherardini" wife of Giocondo a Florence Merchant and Slave Trader ?

The answer is unequivocal-this portrait was never that of "Lisa del Giocondo" which remains lost, and is almost certainly "Leonardo's Mother Caterina" in her prime. The second version of it by his pupils at the time, "Young Mona Lisa" verifies this by also having that same 65+ "Older Lady" on its Subsurface. QED.