Nude Mona Lisa-Like Painting Found (PHOTO)

Could Leonardo have painted a version of the iconic Mona Lisa in the nude? As comical as that might sound, a painting that recently surfaced and is on exhibition at the Museo Ideale in Vinci, the painter's birthplace, suggests this might just be the case.

From Discovery:

The newly revealed painting, hidden for almost a century within the wood wall of a private library, shows a portrait of a half-naked woman with clear links to the famous (and clothed) Mona Lisa.[...]

The lady in the portrait does not exactly resemble the original Mona Lisa, but there is little doubt it has parallels with the painting hanging at the Louvre museum in Paris.

It is, according to the museum's website, the first time the work has been exhibited. Take a look below to see for yourself.

Video showcasing the exhibition.

Comments

[Leper]

Except for the semi-nudity, it looks like one of the paintings in the elevator of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.

[Carnacamarna]

Looks like an original on which the Mona Vanna may have been based upon.

[LadyR]

This is a fake. And Leonardo DaVinci was not into women anyway. He preferred boys, as did many of his colleagues.

[medic628]

An art historian, are you? Your words are rather ig norant.

[Carnacamarna]

Actually if you knew much about Da Vinci's history, consider Salai's painting Mona Vanna. It would be quite logical that he based it upon this painting.

[Petraios]

She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

-Bob Seger, Night Moves

[rsheeran]

Thanks because she's a Red Sox fan - Man you don't know anything about art either

[MonaLisa65]

Go SOX!

[KayWrites]

This is either a great find - or a great hoax.

[Vieux Charles]

Or a less talented, period student of the great da Vinci.

[Vieux Charles]

I had no idea that Leonardo's subject, Lisa del Giocondo, was so ... ummmhh ... perky.

[MonaLisa65]

I've always disliked the word 'perky'... it brings to mind only cheer-leader types and morning people.

[Vieux Charles]

I take it we're talking about a different "Mona Lisa"?

[osocubano]

This couldn't be Leonardo's work, she looks like she has breast implants.

[dmcrat03]

ever seen any of Michaelangelo's sculpture? da Vinci was gay, and often times used men's bodies to model female figures.

It comes as no surprise that the breasts look unnatural.

[rbrinega]

45 years ago (I am *really, really* old!), I had an art history professor at UC Irvine who argued that the original Mona Lisa was a nude study. The background (hills and valleys) was her body.

[emlr]

I'm no art expert but that does not look like Leonardo's style. The figure looks too mannish. She looks like a linebacker.

[Downix]

Actually, if you've studied Leonardo's other female works, especially his statues, his female bodies almost invariably look "mannish".

[Moshe]

Now THAT is art! ;-)

[bizzybea]

Funny

[MrJM]

I'm holding out for a topless Last Supper.

-- MrJM

[Bashley]

I shouldn't laugh at that, but I did. :)

[ImageCo]

LOL - good one

[Seliotis]

I'm sorry. I don't believe that is the work of Leonardo. It may be a nice duplication of his style but it is, quite frankly, ugly. More than likely it was painted by a student of Leonardo rather than the master himself.

[Lionsden]

The definition of a liberal or a pervert: One who supports people pulling down their pants in public via film or print media.

Tops included.

[Seliotis]

The definition of a conservative: one who decries what liberals do in public but do in private. See also hypocrite.

[Seliotis]

The definition of conservative or hypocrite: One who decries pulling down their pants in public but are willing to do it in airport bathrooms or young boys.

[wltdnfaded]

OMG, naked boobies painted 500 years ago! The SHAME!

[stepper]

When God supported Adam and Eve running around naked in the Garden of Eden, was he being a liberal or a pervert?

[nylibgrrl]

Great comeback, funny and on target! Fanned!

[MonaLisa65]

Co-sign!

[inthelandoftheblind]

Ah... the "Do you still beat your wife" trick...well done!

[Hobay]

A message for us all: Her smile is so much bigger once she dropped the laundry.