Leonardo da Vinci (Live)
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The Mona Lisa: A Portrait of Francesco Del Gricondo
Francesco Del Gricondo may have paid for the Mona Lisa with money that he got from the slave trade. This commission is a painting of Francesco's young, glamorous wife called Lisa Jacondo. The first gave him a job offer in 1515 but Leonardo hadn't quite finished it when he took it off with him to France after King France. He gets hired by the King of France as a prestige geek, but to woo him, he doesn't send him a cover letter or a CV. Instead he sends him a robot lion, which is for my host of Robot Wars,. I said, a robot, you've made that, that's not a thing.
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