Mona Lisa (opera) by Max von Schillings

“Mona Lisa was composed in 1914, apparently in a matter of weeks, following an earlier meeting in 1911 with the poet Beatrice Dovsky, whose play on the life of Lady Godiva Schillings had intended to set for the opera stage. When she handed him her poem Mona Lisa he was immediately inspired by the romantic, albeit entirely fictional, story of the woman with the most famously enigmatic smile in history, her husband and her lover – a classic operatic ménage a trois.”
~ https://www.momh.org.uk/exhibitions-detail.php?cat_id=5&prod_id=319

Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo
by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

c.1503-19 / Oil on poplar panel / 30″x21″ / The Louvre Museum, Paris, France

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