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Letters and numbers in Mona Lisa's eyes

The Giant Noodle

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I wonder what this is all about and why it was done.

Tiny numbers and letters have been discovered painted into the eyes of the Mona Lisa prompting an investigation by art historians.
Members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage say the letters and numbers can be seen when magnifying high resolution images of the Mona Lisa'a eyes, the Daily Mail reports.
"To the naked eye the symbols are not visible but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen," Silvano Vinceti, president of the Committee, was quoted as saying.
"In the right eye appear to be the letters LV which could well stand for his name Leonardo Da Vinci while in the left eye there are also symbols but they are not as defined."


CONTINUED: Historians discover letters and numbers in Mona Lisa's eyes - Yahoo!7
 
The Giant Noodle said:
I wonder what this is all about and why it was done.

Tiny numbers and letters have been discovered painted into the eyes of the Mona Lisa prompting an investigation by art historians.
Members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage say the letters and numbers can be seen when magnifying high resolution images of the Mona Lisa'a eyes, the Daily Mail reports.
"To the naked eye the symbols are not visible but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen," Silvano Vinceti, president of the Committee, was quoted as saying.
"In the right eye appear to be the letters LV which could well stand for his name Leonardo Da Vinci while in the left eye there are also symbols but they are not as defined."


CONTINUED: Historians discover letters and numbers in Mona Lisa's eyes - Yahoo!7
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Another Dan Brown book, anyone?

:mrgreen:
 
The "Mona Lisa" was stolen a long time ago and then recovered... I wonder if these 'images' were added later or if they are indeed, original to the painting.
 
closeup image of the Mona Lisa eyelids...
250px-Love_you_student.jpg
 
All the many countless times the damned painting's been examined by magnifying glass, infrared and every other kind of light - and they're just now possibly discovering this?

Talk about being late to the game.

Per the painting being stolen - it's been rumored that what's on display is merely a copy - and maybe the original was never returned.
I'd ask my art history teacher about his opinion but he absolutely hates the Mona Lisa and the fame it's received - not a single positive thing has come out of his mouth about it. It would probably put him in a bad mood :)

Whovian said:
closeup image of the Mona Lisa eyelids...
250px-Love_you_student.jpg
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My world civ's teacher is Mr Jones, I was bummed that he's not "dr" - I so wanted to do that!
 
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Are they going to show us a magnified close up or do we have to wait for one to be "leaked?" :)
 
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