To: OCC; cripplecreek
The technique of painting eyelashes was not perfected until the early 1980's.
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During his lifetime, Leonardo was indeed above all famous for his evident talent for imitating nature to perfection and when his first biographer, the painter Vasari, described the Mona Lisa [1503-1506], he above all insisted on the work's realism: Its limpid eyes had the sparkle of life: ringed by reddish and livid hues, they were bordered by lashes whose execution required the greatest delicacy. The eyelashes, in places thicker or more sparse according to the arrangement of the pores, could not be truer.
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03/08/2009 7:47:22 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
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