[rjsimmon]

Lesions? What lesions? She looks like practically every other woman of that period.

[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/