专题 16 蒙娜丽莎在哪儿微笑的？--2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (16) Where did the “Mona Lisa” smile? “蒙娜丽莎”是在哪微笑的？ 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：艺术 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who?” and “When?” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 pretty much answered both. A note written in a manuscript (手稿)in the library confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpiece to between 1503 and 1506. A third  question—“Where?”—is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer, Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a partner had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. Arguments had previously been made for views of countryside in the Marche region and between Milan and Genoa. During a presentation in Vinci, near Florence, Mr Cotte said that the artist was more likely describing