Irina Guicciardini Strozzi is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Lisa de Giocondo, the original model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Here, photographer Drew Gardner has photographed her posed and framed like her famous ancestor.
This is part of Gardner's project titled The Descendants. It shows the descendants of famous people in the style and costume of iconic portraits of their ancestors. Gardner's subjects include the descendants of Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Horatio Nelson, Oliver Cromwell, and Napoleon Bonaparte.
You can read more about Gardner's project at Colossal.
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Cool. Didn't think the Mona Lisa had descendants at this point, as a lot of lineages do die out over time.
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This is cool, but my take away is that I probably don't look much like my ancestors even a few generations back. Nice remake of the surroundings!
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kinda neat
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