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Scientists say they are to finding the remains of the woman who for Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the Mona Lisa. Researchers have a centuries-old tomb in the Italian city of Florence. They they will the skeleton of da Vinci's muse Lisa Gioconda, the wife of a 16th-century silk merchant. Silvano Vinceti, head of Italy's National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, to test the DNA of the bones under the church to whether or not Ms Gioconda is the woman behind that famous, enigmatic smile. Mr Vinceti will then a computer graphics program to a face from the skull and it to the painting.

Leonardo da Vinci's painting has a constant source of fascination for art experts and ordinary folk alike. Vinceti : "For centuries, historians the world over have been up with various theories about who this enigmatic, mysterious woman could have ." He asks: "Was Gioconda the model for the Mona Lisa? Or was it some other model, as some people ? Or is it just a construction of the painter's fantasy?" Antonio Moretti, a geologist from L'Aquila University the euronews.com website: "We were very lucky I'd , because not only is there a good amount of bone remains, but they are also of in order at the bottom of the crypt, with a plate they to the Gioconda family."