A young woman without eyebrows is seated in front of a beautiful landscape. Does this sound familiar you? This is one of the most famous works （paint） by Leonardo da Vinci. Different theories （produce） about her identity in the past hundreds years. Many art and history buffs thought that it was a portrait of da Vinci himself, but as a woman. Some thought it was not any particular person, the ideal of a woman. They say this is she was painted with no eyebrows. However, thought that it was a portrait of an actual woman of the time, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. In 2005, historian Armin Schlechter of Heidelberg discovered the answer. While （look） through an old manuscript, he found a small note. In this, the woman in the Mona Lisa was （positive） identified as Lisa del Giocondo. The artist had been paid （draw） her portrait after the birth of her second child. "Mona," in fact, means "madam" in Italian. As for her mysterious look? （historian） say women of that time liked to remove their eyebrows. Apparently, they thought eyebrows were not attractive.
