Mona Lisa has syphilis?

Lisa del Giocondo, model in Leonardo di Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, is believed to have bought snail mucus, a water used to cure sexually transmitted infections at the time. This may be the secret behind the masterpiece obsessed with the ghost of death.

What is Mona Lisa's biggest secret? She laughed mysteriously under the invisible transparent silk chiffon, covering both her hair and brown eyes. The fame and charm of portraits Leonardo da Vinci painted in 1503 always has a string that links the mystery of the character. The 16th-century Giorgio Vasari said that Leonardo offered musicians as well as clowns to make Lisa laugh. Walter Pater under the Victorian era thinks that she resembles a "vampire". Modern audiences say that her face has a bit of male and female affection, according to the first observer, Marcel Duchamp.

I have a new hypothesis.Perhaps Mona Lisa has syphilis.

This painting seems like a dream picture, about something that is not true, but this is a portrait of a real person. Lisa Gherardini is the wife of a merchant in Florence named Francesco del Giocondo. Sources obtained, including a 1503 written record of a hired employee in the Palazzo Vecchi, deeply suspected that she was the model for Leonardo (if not, it was like some other historians say, someone has a higher class.

She is the wife of a merchant living in Florence during Machiavelli, Michelangelo or Vespucci. Do we know anything about her? The life of Italian Renaissance women was hidden in the dark. Only Leonardo's painting and some other new works of painting somehow bring these Florence women back to reality.

Mona Lisa's portrait.

Some of the surviving collected documents indicate a part of Del Giocondo's life. For example, she - according to a monk's record - bought snail mucus from a drug maker.

Snail slime ? I actually felt it was funny when I first read it. Even so, I accepted the fact that it was used as a cosmetic or a digestive medicine. Honestly, this is quite meaningless. The main purpose of slugs during that time, according to my recent knowledge, is to treat sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis.

Perhaps it was because of the disgust of this drug that turned it into a unique healing method. Slug water is still used in the 18th century; books written at that time still list quite a bit of the value of this drug. The pharmacopoeia of 1718 wrote the following formula: "6 gallons of garden slugs are cleaned, earthworms are washed, 3 gallons of sage, vines and milk thistle, each is 1 pound and a half .".

Many herbs have been added to make the medicine more disgusting, according to Dr. Richard Mead, a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Other 18th-century recipes also state that slugs are used to treat these diseases, as the Old Theater and Herb Garret Museum (Old Operating Theater Museum and Herb Garret), where The recipes and how they are used to treat these diseases are displayed.

Is that why Del Giocondo needs snail mucus? If that's true, maybe she needs that water for someone and not me. In any case, her sales records only appeared after more than a decade since she modeled for Leonardo. But assuming she had a sexually transmitted disease in 1503, what can you say about Leonardo's most famous painting?

When Del Giocondo modeled Leonardo in 1503, syphilis spread in Europe. Some say that the new disease was brought by new Colombian sailors from the new world in 1492. It spread like fire. Is that a reference to Leonardo's most famous painting?

When Pater compared Mona Lisa to vampires, he indirectly talked about something terrible and sick in Leonardo's masterpiece: "It's a mix of sex and death. Perhaps this is not simply the decline of Pater's fantasy magic, because of the true darkness of death in this painting, when Andy Warhol created the black and white version of the Mona Lisa in 1963, he revealed a black mark under the golden and brown patches in Leonardo's intricate portraits, a dark array spreading across Giocondo's face, bringing about the definition of her beauty, but also indirectly haunting. pointing to a sadness behind her mysterious smile, the darkness around her eyes seemed to show that she was unwell. The strange blue surrounding her may be a poison of disease. "

If Mona Lisa is a portrait of a person with sexually transmitted disease, the allusions of death and illness suddenly become reasonable. About her mysterious smile, it became a sarcastic acknowledgment that sex can make you sick. This creepy message is also consistent with Sigmund Freud's analysis of Leonardo. In Leonardo da Vinci and Childhood Recollection in 1910, Freud argues that the wise scientist Leonardo, who not only painted but also wrote a series of scientific studies, felt uncomfortable with sex. Freud said, Leonardo is gay, but afraid of intercourse with men or women. Instead, he "sublimated" sex into research.

Certainly Freud will think, it's interesting that model Mona Lisa may have syphilis. Of course, he made many mistakes in the book about Leonardo. However, there is a certain unhealthy thing about obsessive seduction that has made many admire her beauty behind her. Whatever Mona Lisa's true meaning is, it is still a masterpiece.