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Leonardo da Vinci secret: Mona Lisa's hidden detail discovered by high-tech camera
Express (U.K.) ^ | Thu, Sep 24, 2020 | Josh Saunders

Posted on 09/24/2020 6:46:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/24/2020 6:46:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 09/24/2020 6:49:31 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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White privilege


3 posted on 09/24/2020 6:50:25 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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She needs lotion, her forehead looks ashy...


4 posted on 09/24/2020 6:55:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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Definitely asymptomatic.


5 posted on 09/24/2020 6:57:30 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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The markings, which suggest the piece was not entirely freehand, had been discovered in other da Vinci works too.

It was a freehand drawing that da Vinci transferred to his board, much like tracing a drawing with carbon paper today. As an artist, I really don't like this idea of close inspection to see how an artist achived what he did. Just look at the finished painting, it's a masterpiece.

6 posted on 09/24/2020 6:59:37 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Interesting.


7 posted on 09/24/2020 7:03:55 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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No! Not spolvero marks!!! 😱
8 posted on 09/24/2020 7:04:28 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.S)
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That’s how they caught Harvey Weinstein?


9 posted on 09/24/2020 7:09:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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She’s got the “smoky eye” down pat. ;o)


10 posted on 09/24/2020 7:13:19 PM PDT by boatbums (Come unto me all you who are burdened and heavy laden - for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.)
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Having seen this a number of times and hearing different guides, as I recall he never stopped working on this piece, it was even beside his bed as he got old and was dying it was still a work in progress.


11 posted on 09/24/2020 7:16:24 PM PDT by Jolla
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I remember reading that she had a veil on her head (a Mantilla?) at one point in his painting of her, and the ‘shadow-marks’ on her forehead were from the lace that he later painted out.

Funny the things that pop into your head about these important pieces of art, right or wrong. ;)


12 posted on 09/24/2020 7:24:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Just looks like an Italian broad to me.


13 posted on 09/24/2020 7:24:36 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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Forehead smudge...she coulda washed a little...


14 posted on 09/24/2020 7:31:22 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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how an artist achived what he did - just look at the finished painting

Sorry but I disagree. Was watching a special on William Turners landscapes and the technique he used to make them, it was amazing and fascinating to learn how they were created. I had thought artist just take paint and create the painting, it/his was not done that way at all there was much more to it.


15 posted on 09/24/2020 7:32:05 PM PDT by Jolla
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This hairpin in the sky just to the right of Mona Lisa's head cannot belong to a portrait of a person because in the city of Florence this was not the fashion at the time.

My dear boy, no matter the fashion or stupid dictates you will always find several someones who tell them to go forthwith to a location of extreme heat.

These people are called "originals" and they get away with it because they are individuals. They generally have society at their feet or at their throats and don't give a rip either way.

This is the kind of person that an artist paints because they are interesting.

16 posted on 09/24/2020 7:32:58 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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The hairpin was really a UFO.
They had lot’s of UFOs in art back then.


17 posted on 09/24/2020 7:34:03 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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The discovery is really saying that, Leonardo was painting by the numbers.

Furthermore, the painting is really a painting of himself, where he imagined himself as a woman, and proceeded to give himself womanly facial features in the painting. History does not mention him as being a homosexual, but, historians didn’t want to taint his character.


18 posted on 09/24/2020 7:41:30 PM PDT by adorno
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mona
19 posted on 09/24/2020 7:45:20 PM PDT by SimpleJack
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And very over rated. I was one of the 10 million one year to go see it. I was like really????? I was in and out of the louvre in an hour and 20 minutes. I picked up the top 10 must see in the louvre book and that is what I saw. I can’t believe people spend weeks in there. Definitely not my thing.


20 posted on 09/24/2020 7:47:07 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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