We may finally
know what the real Mona Lisa looked like. The Prado Museum in Madrid recently
cleaned and restored one of its more obscure and seemingly unimportant
paintings, a copy of Leonardo DaVinci’s ‘Mona Lisa.’ In the museum’s possession
since 1819, the copy was thought to have been completed after DaVinci’s death.
During the extensive process, however, museum officials discovered that the
painting was done by a pupil working alongside the master: x-rays revealed that
the copy evolved and developed just as the original did. Experts were able to
strip away the dark, cracked varnish and a black over paint, revealing a young
woman with beautiful skin in front of a colorful Tuscan landscape. Her eyebrows
are visible, her lips are rosy, and she looks years younger than her more
famous counterpart. DaVinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ my hide similar charms under her own
aged and discolored varnish.
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