Italian Historian Identifies Bridge in Mona Lisa Painting

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Italian Historian Identifies Bridge in Mona Lisa Painting
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Historian Silvano Vinceti claims that the bridge behind Mona Lisa is actually the Romito Bridge in the Tuscan town of Laterina, not the Ponte Buriano as previously believed. Vinceti drew on documents from the state archives in Florence and made a virtual reconstruction of the bridge to show the similarities. The Romito bridge had four arches, as depicted in the artwork, while the Buriano bridge has six arches. The Romito bridge is now in ruins and linked Arezzo, Fiesole, and Florence.

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