The research is still going on as it is not yet clear who is the lady behind the Painting Of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”.Theories abound about who is the real Mona Lisa was, but Silvano Vinceti, a writer and researcher who heads Italy’s National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, plans to test DNA in the bones in the dank space and try to match it with those of three women buried at a convent nearby.

Historians say Gherardini – whose married name ‘Gioconda’ is used in Italy to refer to the Mona Lisa – spent her last years at the Saint Orsola convent, a dilapidated building where the hunt for her bones began last year.