MONA Landscape with Hunting Incident of Arch- duke Maximilian, Antwerp Museum; Re- pose in Egypt, Antwerp Cathedral ; Mountain- ous Landscape, Amster- dam Museum ; Laud- scapes (4) depicting the Seasons, Mountainous Landscapes (3), Bruns- wick Gallery ; Tower of Babel, Alpine Land- scape, Cassel Gallery ; do., Berlin Museum ; Rocky Landscapes (3), Mountainous do. (4), Dresden Gallery ; View of St. Gothard, Rocky Landscape, Vienna Museum ; Land- scapes (4), Copenhagen Gallery ; do. (12), Madrid Museum ; Landscape, Mass in a Grotto, View of a Castle, Landscape with Vintage, Travellers passing Cavern, Aschaf- fenburg Gallery ; Bird's Eye View of a Landscape, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Seaport, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg ; others in Museums of Cologne, Darmstadt (2), Lille, Nantes, Naples ; in Galleries of Bamberg, Christiania, Oldenburg (2), Schwerin (2), Turin ; Harrach and Liech- tenstein Galleries, Vienna ; Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Allgem. d. Biogr., xxii. 159 ; Biog. nat. de Belgique, v. 504 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamande ; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 109 , Kugler (Crowe), i. 2GO;Kramm, iv. 1141 , Michiels, ix. 123 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii 38 ; Rooses (Reber), 120 ; Van den Bran- den, 309 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vii. 172. MONA (Monio), DOMENICO, born in Ferrara in 1550, died in Parma in 1002. Lombard school ; pupil of Giuseppe Mazzu- oli ; had great facility of execution, and left many large works in Ferrara, whence Le was obliged to flee after he had killed an officer of Cardinal Aldobrandini's household in a fit of frenzy. Some of his pictures are praiseworthy, but many are inferior. Lanzi, iii. 210 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole ferraraise. MONA LISA, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre ; wood, H. 2 ft. G in. x 1 ft. 9 in. Portrait of Mona (Madonna, Madame) Lisa Gherardi- ni, third wife (married 1495) of Francesco del Giocondo, whence called La Gioconda (Fr., La Joconde). Half-length, life-size, seated in an arm-chair, with hands crossed ; costume simple, without ornament ; back- ground, a mountainous landscape. Painted in 1500-1504, Leonardo having had it four years in hand. Francis I. paid 4,000 gold crowns for it a few years later. Many cop- ies, some by pupils of Leonardo : Madrid Museum ; Munich Gallery ; Hermitage, St. Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre. Petersburg ; Prince Torlonia, Rome ; Casa Mozzi, Florence ; Villa Sommariva, Lake of Como ; Earl of Wemyss, Mr. Hume, Mr. Woodburn, London. Engraved by Fau- chery ; Massard ; Calamatta ; Bridoux. - Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 39 ; Clement, 219, 373 ; Rigollot, i. 295 ; Heaton, Leonardo, 49, 264 ; Gilbert, Cadore, 75 ; Richter, Leonardo, 88 ; Museefraiujais, ii. Part 2 ; Klas. derMalerei, i. PI. 18 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 163 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine ; Filhol, xi. PI. 29 ; Larousse, ix. 997.
