Scan hints Mona Lisa pregnant for pose (was La Joconde pregnant?)

Associated Press ^ | 09/27/06

[CremeSaver]

I think that is one of the reasons I like her so much. I like to think that she outsmarted the King. The only sad part is that she never married and had a family of her own. She did have the undying love and respect of Henry's children so that had to compensate for something. Queen Mary had her buried with honors and ceremony as a token of her love for the woman who was, for very short time, her stepmother.

I wonder, was there really a romance between Anne and Hans? And when he painted her portrait was he a man in love? Was he looking at her through the eyes of love and seeing something that wasn't there? Nah, I don't think so.:O)

[CremeSaver]

Yes, probably. As I think half of this country will fight, but are we going to be enough considering all of the leftist Euros and leftist-looney Americans, plus the muslim hoards? I hope so.

[Salamander]

Wow!

Whoopie's that old?.....:))

[Salamander]

[martin_fierro]

Wrong.

Wrong.

WRONG.

[6323cd]

Queen Mary had her buried with honors and ceremony

I didn't know that; Bloody Mary yet! Was it a Catholic funeral, I wonder?

[GOP_1900AD]

Duh gee, I thought a man was posed .... that's what Dan Brown said..... if Dan Brown said it, it must be true! /sarc

[CremeSaver]

I'm going to have to look that up, but something tells me that Anne became a Catholic. ???? Off to research.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yeah. Guilty as charged.

[GOP_1900AD]

Or how about this. Leveraging from the Free State Project idea. Pick the most endangered countries in Europe and move there. In particular, traditional Catholics and LDS need to be incented. You know why ... then, start to build real walls, just like the old days. Transform the military into a lean mean barbarian killing machine. Etc. There was this guy named Charlemagne, who started out as a nobody, with a similar plan.

[GOP_1900AD]

Our culture is European. If they won't do it, then let us go there, take it over, and lead.

[CremeSaver]

According to Wikipedia she converted to Catholicism before she died. I thought that was the case, but even if she had not I think Mary was sufficiently fond of her to have buried her respectfully at Westminster.

[CremeSaver]

I think we will have our hands full over here eventually. We first have to fight our own liberals and PCer's before we can go over there. Thankfully we do have copies. LOL!

[Arthalion]

Researchers using three-dimensional technology to study the "Mona Lisa" say the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece was either pregnant or had recently given birth when she sat for the painting

That's not exactly suprising. This was painted in a devoutly Catholic land in the age before birth control. Unless a girl was of the noble classes, she was generally married between 14 and 16, became immediately sexually active, and started bearing children. She would then spend the rest of her life either pregnant or nursing a baby (God's gift to a mothers sanity). That's just the way things were back then. Since "Mona" obviously appears to be old enough for marriage, and since she wasn't a noble, it was a pretty solid bet that she was either pregnant or had young children.

[Kirkwood]

"It was the fashion of the day for ladies to shave their eyebrows."

I realize that, but it just looks odd. Reminds me of Whoopie Goldberg.

[Kirkwood]

Yeah, that's better! LOL!
Now she reminds me of Uncle Leo on Seinfeld.

[Mila]

""she that was dull, stupid, without grace of form, knew no music and could not sing, blah, blah etc," but to me, I though her the loveliest of Henry the VIIIth's wives."

I have always heard that Holbein embellished a bit in his interpretation of Anne and that, when they finally met, Henry was none too happy with the actual model.

[Salamander]

LOL!

They totally transform her expression, too.
Now she looks conniving.....;D

[or Vulcan]

[CremeSaver]

LOL! I would say that Anne was far more shocked by seeing Henry than Henry was at seeing Anne. By the time they met Henry was quite obese and had runny ulcerated sores on his legs which smelled very badly. I think the eventual divorce made her very happy for two reasons. 1) She got rid of Henry; and 2) She got to keep her head on her shoulders and die peacefully in her own bed. :O)

[pointsal]

Is the young lady .......