TIL That The Mona Lisa Did Indeed Have Clearly Visible Eyelashes Or Eyebrows.
Adventures of Mona Lisa
Do you think the title above, completely cover the untold escapade that the world's most famous painting (the Mona Lisa portrait) went through? What do you think? How would you headline the Mona Lisa story?
Well,today i learned that:
That The Mona Lisa Did Indeed Have clearly visible eyelashes or eyebrows!
Yes, more than 500 years of preservation and travel wore the top part of Mona Lisa's face and varnished her eyebrows. (In 2007, an engineer used high resolution scans to show the painting was originally painted with clearly visible eyebrows or eyelashes and they gradually disappeared over time, possibly because of over cleaning.)
Well, that Da Vinci started this painting in the 1,500 is enough reason. I mean, even love would fade, if it had to endure that span of time. Let alone the other hurdles this painting overcame, as seen below:
Ofcourse, this renown Mona Lisa portrait and the innocent woman it holds, survived: wars; rocks thrown at it; paint spilled at it; humidity; flying coffee mugs shattered at it; the most incredible heists in art history (theft); burning acid; insects!
Questions that keep the Mona Lisa subject an evergreen and intriguing topic:
Why is the Mona Lisa painting famous?
Why did it go through to many travails?
Why was it constantly attempted to be stolen?
Why did people actively dedicate their lives to preserving it?
(NB: This was a tiny 30 by 21 inch sized oil painting).
Why did this painting created 500 years ago, still form the basis for modern day painting and arts in general?
Why does the mystery of the smile held by Mona Lisa, still cause debate amongst scholars till today?
How did Mona Lisa, survive?
Why have people give ambition to restoring this old portrait?
Dumbstrucking, is how amazing this subject is!
Notice that some of the YouTube videos of Mona Lisa have gathered millions of views; further evidence this, still is, intriguing subject!
DID YOU KNOW?
A documentary that will explain this subject in the clearest terms:
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