It has been 500 years since the great painter Leonardo da Vinci was born, the Mona Lisa painting has caused curiosity for many analysts, from art, science, optical analysis to psychological analysis. The ambiguity in the expression of the model, the strangeness of the half face and the skillful drawing technique makes the Mona Lisa always associated with two mysterious words.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an Italian great artist, recognized as an almighty genius of the world. He is a painter, architect, sculptor, engineer, musician, doctor, anatomist, natural philosopher, innovator. Leonardo da Vinci is a very mysterious person, he often sends messages through the symbols in his work.
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Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
After nearly half a century, people have discovered 8 mysteries in Da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa.
Mysterious smile
According to the researchers, Leonardo Da Vinci used his self-taught technique "Sfumato", the way to paint the faded shades together to create the perfect portrait of the Mona Lisa. It was this technique that created the illusion of a "mysterious smile" for the Mona Lisa.
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Mysterious smile hundreds of years.
When the viewer first looks at the picture, they will see the Mona Lisa is smiling through her eyes but when looking down on the lips, that smile seems to disappear.
Password hidden in the eyes
Thanks to advanced technology, researchers in the Italian National Committee for Cultural Heritage resolved the painting to the highest quality and discovered that Mona Lisa's eyes contained many small numbers and letters.
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Accordingly, the right eye of the Mona Lisa has the character LV, maybe it is an abbreviation of Leonardo da Vinci's name. The left eye also has characters but it has not been determined whether it is the letter CE or B, in the arch of the eye is 72, or L and 2 because the picture is no longer sharp.
The emotion on the Mona Lisa's face
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In 2005, scholars from the University of Illinois, USA collaborated with scientists at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands to assess the emotional state of Mona Lisa's face. They calculated the Mona Lisa's face from a scientific perspective and stated that her face showed 83% happiness, 9% disgust, 6% fear, anger 2%, less than 1% neutral and 0% were surprised.
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Recently, German scientists have used a method of analyzing all the elements of the face (eyes, smiles) to assess the emotions on the face of the Mona Lisa. The team shifted the mouth of the Mona Lisa to different angles to create 8 changing images of the corners of the Mona Lisa's mouth and came to the conclusion: Her face showed joy.
Mona Lisa has eyebrows and eyelashes
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Close-up photo of Mona Lisa's eyes.
In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte used a 240-megapixel Multi-spectral camera of his own design, which used 13 bands from ultraviolet to infrared to scan the picture. He discovered that the Mona Lisa is not without eyebrows and eyelashes as we thought.
Even Mona Lisa's eyes have a brush stroke on her eyebrow area. But so far, no one has been able to understand Da Vinci's intention to hide the drawing of her eyebrows and eyelashes.
Golden ratio on Mona Lisa's face
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In art and mathematics, two quantities are said to have a "golden ratio" if the ratio of the sum of those quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller quantity.
From the picture, we can see the face of the Mona Lisa in a golden rectangle and the rest of the picture is also structured in a golden spiral.
Mona Lisa is pregnant
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When studying the Mona Lisa's outfit, the researchers discovered many questionable points. They used the method of infrared reflection on the picture and discovered that the Mona Lisa's shirt was the type to reveal bare shoulders, with very thin chiffon pieces covering the top of the shirt, lightly covering the shoulders. left and also the back of the chair.
Even, the chiffon piece seems to be sewn with the edge of the embroidery collar very cleverly and draped like a layer of outerwear.
According to the researchers, this style is very popular in the Renaissance and is a blouse for children, women who are pregnant or have just given birth.
Kenneth Kill, a British physician, also said that Da Vinci's painting conveys the satisfaction of a pregnant woman.
Animal images appear behind the Mona Lisa
According to experts, we can see the image of the head of a buffalo, a lion's head and a monkey in the scenery behind the Mona Lisa if the complete strokes are drawn and rotated at an appropriate angle.
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Light spots are highlighted to mark the position of the animals in the picture.
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The heads of animals are reproduced more clearly.
They even discovered a crocodile or a snake hidden in the left hand of the Mona Lisa.
The mystery in Mona Lisa's hands
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In the picture, the Mona Lisa's right hand is below her stomach, this is the first time an artist has put the model's arm and wrist in such a position.
Experts found that the color just below the wrist had to match the color of the fabric covering her knee, which meant: her arm and wrist supported a blanket.
Although they discovered this, they still did not understand what the message that Da Vinci meant.