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Gioconda

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Gioconda (Italian) [dʒoˈkonda]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) La. See Mona Lisa
[Italian: the smiling (lady)]


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Other characters from opera's well of evil include the spy Barnaba in La Gioconda, police chief Javert, in Les Miserables, the most infamous of barbers in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, womaniser Don Giovanni, knife-wielding London villain Mack the Knife, Iago, Sporting Life from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess plus many more.
The melodramatic plot shares common elements with La gioconda, based loosely on the same Victor Hugo play.
Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is the 16th century portrait painted in oil by Leonardo Da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance.
 
 
 
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