Gioconda painting is from Tuscany!
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Would you ever say it? I admit it, me surely not, but after all we know Leonardo da Vinci was a fond of the good taste and surely the tuscan valleys surrounding Villa Le Fonti are full-blown splendid sceneries, but i didn’t think that they are famous in all the world!
The Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci, the most important pictured of the world, infact draws inspiration from the valley at the feet of Villa Le Fonti!
There are numerous theories that want other places self-hoard the title of background of this work but this green view of Tuscany in the province of Arezzo seems the winner of the aspired competition.
Painted with oil technique on poplar wood, for many times owing to a not uniform characteristic of the back landscape the Gioconda was retained a picture with imaginary background. Knowing Leonardo and the care to the particulars that the tuscan artist never left out in his works, during the years the idea of a real background was revalued. So with a more careful observation, we saw that further the right shoulder of the Gioconda there is a sign indicate a precise point of the Tuscany; the point were the Arno river passes below an humpback bridge in romanic style: the bridge in the Buriano fraction, only 2 kilometers away from Villa Le Fonti.
This sign, supported with the perfect knowledge by Leonardo about the morphology of Tuscany and in particular of Arezzo, is a good starting point for recognize others points on the picture that give a considerable percentage of truth about the tuscan origin of the Gioconda.
From the garden of Villa Le Fonti you can perfectly see this landscape that especially in the sunset time gives you suggestive and unique emotions! There are infinite causes for spend an holiday at Villa Le Fonti and this is only one of the many for self-grant a week of relax, plunge in the swimming pool and enjoy of unforgettable moments in Tuscany!