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 Landscape with Hunting Incident of Archduke Maximilian, Antwerp Museum; Repose in Egypt, Antwerp Cathedral; Mountainous Landscape, Amsterdam Museum; Landscapes (4) depicting the Seasons, Mountainous Landscapes (3), Brunswick Gallery; Tower of Babel, Alpine Landscape, Cassel Gallery; do., Berlin Museum; Rocky Landscapes (3), Mountainous do. (4), Dresden Gallery; View of St. Gothard, Rocky Landscape, Vienna Museum; Landscapes (4), Copenhagen Gallery; do. (12), Madrid Museum; Landscape, Mass in a Grotto, View of a Castle, Landscape with Vintage, Travellers passing Cavern, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Bird's Eye View of a Landscape, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Seaport, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; others in Museums of Cologne, Darmstadt (2), Lille, Nantes, Naples; in Galleries of Bamberg, Christiania, Oldenburg (2), Schwerin (2), Turin; Harrach and Liechtenstein Galleries, Vienna; Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxii. 159; Biog. nat. de Belgique, v. 564; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 109, Kugler (Crowe), i. 260; Kramm, iv. 1141, Michiels, ix. 123; Riegel, Beiträge, ii 38; Rooses (Reber), 120; Van den Branden, 309; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vii. 172.

MONA (Monio), DOMENICO, born in Ferrara in 1550, died in Parma in 1602. Lombard school; pupil of Giuseppe Mazzuoli; had great facility of execution, and left many large works in Ferrara, whence he was obliged to flee after he had killed an officer of Cardinal Aldobrandini's household in a fit of frenzy. Some of his pictures are praiseworthy, but many are inferior.—Lanzi, iii. 210; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.

Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre.

MONA LISA, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre; wood, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 9 in. Portrait of Mona (Madonna, Madame) Lisa Gherardini, third wife (married 1495) of Francesco del Giocondo, whence called La Gioconda (Fr., La Joconde). Half-length, life-size, seated in an arm-chair, with hands crossed; costume simple, without ornament; background, a mountainous landscape. Painted in 1500-1504, Leonardo having had it four years in hand. Francis I. paid 4,000 gold crowns for it a few years later. Many copies, some by pupils of Leonardo: Madrid Museum; Munich Gallery; Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Prince Torlonia, Rome; Casa Mozzi, Florence; Villa Sommariva, Lake of Como; Earl of Wemyss, Mr. Hume, Mr. Woodburn, London. Engraved by Fauchery; Massard; Calamatta; Bridoux.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 39; Clement, 219, 373; Rigollot, i. 295; Heaton, Leonardo, 49, 264; Gilbert, Cadore, 75; Richter, Leonardo, 88; Musée français, ii. Part 2; Klas. der Málerei, i. Pl. 18; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 163; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Filhol, xi. Pl. 29; Larousse, ix. 997.