Both the Lady and the Mona Lisa are white European women who came from, what appears to be, upper class families who were born, raised and educated according to customs. and the standards of the time and come from privileged backgrounds. Both wear a veil over their hair and wear dark-colored dresses with long sleeves. Their hands are visible in both portraits, just above the waist. Both women were part of the Renaissance that affected their home regions equally, with ideas flowing back and forth between north and south, both influencing each other significantly.