Mona Lisa’s Eyebrows were Plucked?
Published by Greg October 19th, 2007
The Mona Lisa, before and after analysis by French Engineer. A French engineer has carried out an analysis if the Mona Lisa which seems to indicate that an earlier version of the painting showed her with eyebrows.
Pascal Cotte announced at a press conference Wednesday that he has found definitive proof that when Leonardo da Vinci painted the original portrait he included “Mona Lisa’s” lashes and brows.
If you click here, you can see the eyebrowed mona lisa. However, this is very annoying. First, the image you will be looking at is streatched wide to fit a wide-screen format, and second, you’ve got to listen to an ad by Dennis Hopper. Or some other ad. But whatever.
The results of this study are on display at the Metreon in San Francisco.
By the way, that picture? It’s just a joke. The Mona Lisa did not really look like Groucho Marx.
The position of his supposed brushstroke makes no sense for either a lash or brow hair. It’s would make a lash ridiculously long and place the brow far below where it’s usually found.
Since so many of Leonardo’s other paintings of women lack brows or lashes or both I think it’s safe to assume this guy is seeing what he wants to see.