MONA LISA TIMELINE

1444:	Birth of Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini, Lisa’s father.
1449:	Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici.
1452:	Birth of Leonardo da Vinci.
1465:	Birth of Francesco del Giocondo, future husband of Lisa Gherardini.
1469:	Lorenzo de’ Medici assumes power in Florence.
1476:	Antonmaria Gherardini marries for the third time, to Lucrezia da Caccia (after two wives die in childbirth).
1478:	Pazzi conspiracy and attempted assassination of Lorenzo de’ Medici.
	Florence at war with the papacy and Naples.
1479:	Birth of Lisa to Antonmaria Gherardini and his wife, Lucrezia.
1480:	Lorenzo de’ Medici brokers a peace with Naples and Pope Sixtus IV.
1480–1520:	Forty members of the del Giocondo family serve in the Florentine government.
1482:	Leonardo leaves Florence and moves to Milan.
1491:	Francesco del Giocondo marries his first wife, Camilla Rucellai.
1492:	Lorenzo de’ Medici dies; son Piero assumes power.
	Christopher Columbus discovers the New World.
1493:	Birth of Francesco del Giocondo’s son Bartolomeo.
1494:	Francesco del Giocondo’s first wife, Camilla, dies.
	Florence ousts Piero de’ Medici and ends Medici rule.
	French troops under King Charles VIII invade Italy and surround Florence.
	Fra Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar, assumes greater influence in Florence.
1495:	Wedding of Lisa Gherardini and Francesco del Giocondo.
1496:	Birth of Lisa’s son Piero del Giocondo.
1497:	Birth of Lisa’s daughter Piera del Giocondo.
1498:	Execution of Savonarola.
1499:	Death of Lisa’s daughter Piera del Giocondo.
	Birth of Lisa’s daughter Camilla del Giocondo.
	France occupies Milan; Leonardo flees.
1500:	Leonardo returns to Florence.
	Birth of Lisa’s daughter Marietta del Giocondo.
1502:	Leonardo works as military engineer for Cesare Borgia.
	Birth of Lisa’s son Andrea del Giocondo.
1503:	Leonardo works on a portrait of Lisa Gherardini.
	Michelangelo’s David installed in the Piazza della Signoria.
	Leonardo receives a commission to paint the Battle of Anghiari in the Palazzo Vecchio.
1504:	Death of Leonardo’s father, Ser Piero da Vinci.
1506:	Leonardo summoned to Milan to complete a long-disputed work.
1507:	Birth of Lisa’s son Giocondo del Giocondo, who dies a month later.
1512:	Lisa Gherardini’s younger sister Suor Camilla accused of engaging in “obscene acts” with men within the walls of her convent.
	Francesco del Giocondo briefly jailed as a Medici loyalist.
	Lorenzo’s sons Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici and Giuliano de’ Medici reclaim power in Florence.
	End of the Florentine Republic.
1513:	Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici is voted Pope; takes name Leo X.
	Francesco del Giocondo serves as a prior of the Florence Signoria.
1514:	Leonardo moves to Rome and works under the patronage of Giuliano de’ Medici.
1516:	Death of Giuliano de’ Medici.
	King Francis I of France becomes Leonardo’s patron.
	Leonardo moves to France.
1518:	Death of Lisa’s oldest daughter Camilla (Suor Beatrice).
1519:	Death of Leonardo in France.
1521:	Lisa’s youngest daughter, Marietta, takes vows as a nun (Suor Ludovica).
1523:	Giulio de’ Medici becomes Pope Clement VII.
1525:	Francesco del Giocondo serves a second term as a prior of the Signoria.
1527:	Sack of Rome.
	Rebirth of the Florentine Republic.
1530:	Siege of Florence and fall of the Florentine Republic.
	Return of the Medici to power.
1538:	Death of Francesco del Giocondo and burial in a private chapel at Santissima Annunziata.
1540:	Lisa Gherardini goes to live in the Monastero di Sant’Orsola.
1542:	Death of Lisa Gherardini and burial at Sant’Orsola.