The "Mona Lisa" has long been shrouded in mystery, including one long-standing question about the famous lady: What happened to her eyebrows and eyelashes? This week a French engineer and inventor examined the famous painting with a camera of his own design. Now, he says he's uncovered part of the enigma.
Pascal Cotte examined the world's most famous painting and his device scanned a 240-million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra-violet and infrared.
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.
The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the "Mona Lisa's" face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought -- a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.
"One day I say, if I can find only one hair, only one hair of the eyebrow, I will have definitively the proof that originally Leonardo da Vinci had painted eyelash and eyebrow," said Cotte.Meanwhile another of the enigma's about the Mona Lisa has been solved. The smile was the result of the discovery of long lost papers that revealed her agent had just gotten her a three picture deal!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
