Secret of Mona Lisa’s Smile Revealed?
The amount of detail that would be required if this is true (and it does seem pretty factual) is astounding. dozens and hundreds of brush strokes each millimeter… only able to complete a small part and continue on the next day. Finishing a single layer and then going back over it? I often heard the wonder of how the painting looks so great and how can it considering the age. I think it was the cre that went into it… the amount of work. Read the article to understand what made Mona Lisa smile to real… so captivating.
Dots Make the Mona Lisa
Secret of Mona Lisa’s Smile Revealed?
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
April 3, 2006— Hidden behind the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile are millions of invisible dots, according to research presented this week at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.Revealed at the exhibition “The mind of Leonardo — The universal genius at work,” which runs at the gallery until January 2007, the Mona Lisa code consists of countless of dot layers applied with a technique of micro-divided brushstrokes.
Jacques Franck, a consultant at the Armand Hammer Centre for Da Vinci Studies at the University of California, reported that the technique is somewhat similar to pointillism used by the French Neo-Impressionists in the late 19th century.
“Examples of this micro-division of tones exist since the ancient Romans. Leonardo took an existing techniques, but used it to the extreme, like nobody else,” Franck told Discovery News.
