Ahhh, The Mona Lisa,
probably the most famous painting in the world,
and yet we all mstakenly name her Mona Lisa.
Mona isn't her name at all.
Mona, translated, means My Lady,
so the real name of the painting is
My Lady Lisa.
So... for the most part, we really didn't know
the name of the most famous painting in the world.
There's something else about the painting
that for most of us has gone unnoticed.
Where are her eyebrows,
or eyelashes for that matter?
Her's the real painting, take a good look.
Do you see any eyebrows?
Eyelashes?
I don't.
Leonardo Da Vinci was considered an
absolute perfectionist,
so why no eyebrows or lashes?
Did he just miss it?
Really?
He was often quoted as saying his works
were never finished.
Was that the case with My Lady Lisa.
Apparently so, because the painting was never
delivered to its original customer,
Francesco Del Giocondo, Lisa's husband.
DaVinci kept the painting with him whenever he
moved, and continued to work on it till he died.
So again, what abut those brows and lashes?
In 2007 a French photographer claimed that by using
a high dfinition camera the eyebrows and eyelashes
are indeed visible, so hence were originally there.
Do you see them now?
Nope, neither do I...
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