[ETL]

She looks like practically every other woman of that period.

Doctor Claims Model For da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ Was Sick

September 5, 2018

Dr. Mandeep Mehra is a medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

He’s been studying the woman in the da Vinci’s masterpiece, painted in the early 1500s.

She is believed to be the wife of a wealthy merchant.

Mehra points to a lack of eyebrows, receding hair line, a lesion near her left eye, a puffy neck and swollen hands.

His diagnosis?

A serious thyroid condition.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/09/05/doctor-claims-model-for-da-vincis-mona-lisa-was-sick/

[miss marmelstein]

The doc should stop looking at the Mona Lisa and start reading social history books of the middle ages and Renaissance. Women shaved the top of their heads closely to have a higher forehead.

[rjsimmon]

Mehra points to a lack of eyebrows, receding hair line, a lesion near her left eye, a puffy neck and swollen hands.

Venitian women often removed their eyebrows. It was a Renaissance thing. The 'lesion' could very well be just a flaw in the painting, it looks to have been added long after the original was made. As for a puffy neck and swollen hands, the model had given birth not long before she sat for the portrait.

Some people want to fabricate their 15 minutes.