Photographer Places the Descendants of Famous People into Their Portraits

Irina Guicciardini Strozzi is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Lisa de Giocondo, the original model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Here, photographer Drew Gardner has photographed her posed and framed like her famous ancestor.

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This is part of Gardner’s project titled The Descendants. It shows the descendants of famous people in the style and costume of iconic portraits of their ancestors. Gardner’s subjects include the descendants of Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Horatio Nelson, Oliver Cromwell, and Napoleon Bonaparte.

You can read more about Gardner’s project at Colossal.

Source: neatorama

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