Have they found the Mona Lisa's bones? Experts believe they have found skeleton of noblewoman who sat for Da Vinci's masterpiece • Leonardo’s model thought to have been discovered in tomb under convent • Remains dated and tie in with the death of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo • Gherardini died at age 63 in 1542 and is widely believed to be Mona Lisa • But her face won't be able to be reconstructed as body found has no head By Published: 19:52 GMT, 24 September 2015 Updated: 00:33 GMT, 25 September 2015. Historical experts believe they have found the tomb of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa model buried under the altar of a derelict Florence convent Her enigmatic smile has baffled art lovers for centuries - but now the mystery of the Mona Lisa seems to have finally been solved. Historical experts believe they have found the tomb of Leonardo’s model buried under the altar of a derelict Florence convent.

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Carbon testing on the bones of three women exhumed in Florence's Sant'Orsola convent have been dated to the time of death of Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo. Most historians now agree that Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, a noblewoman who was the third wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was the sitter for the Renaissance masterpiece.

In an investigation worthy of the Da Vinci Code, archaeologists led by art detective Silvano Vinceti exhumed several skeletons stacked on top of each other under the chapel. And scientists have now completed carbon dating work on one of the fragments which indicated the remains were compatible with the period.

Gherardini died at age 63 in 1542, where, by then a widow, she had gone to live with her daughter, Marietta, a nun. Head researcher Silvano Vinceti who leads the National Committee of Historic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage said it is 'very likely' the remains belong to Gherardini. Serial surfer mac download. Archaeologist Silvano Vincenti sits alongside another archaeologist working on the third excavation of a grave inside the medieval Convent of Saint Ursula in Florence in 2012 He said: 'The remains of the children that were found in the church of the Santissima Annunziata have been degraded too much by the flooding of the Arno and are not able to provide sufficient DNA for possible comparison tests'. Fellow researcher, Giorgio Gruppioni, head of the forensic anthropology laboratory at Bologna University said: ‘Our biggest problem has been the fact that the fragments were very fragmented, very deteriorated.’.