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Younger, happier Mona Lisa painted 10 years earlier, experts believe
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| September 27, 2012
| Discovery News
Posted on 10/01/2012 5:51:27 AM PDT by jmcenanly
Leonardo da Vinci painted a younger and happier Mona Lisa some 10 years before painting the famous painting, art experts are claiming. Slightly larger in size than the famous portrait, which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris, the painting features a darker tonality, a different and unfinished background framed by two columns, and shows a younger lady with a less enigmatic smile. Known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa, the artwork will be unveiled in Geneva on Thursday by the Mona Lisa Foundation, a Zurich-based consortium which has kept the painting in a Swiss bank vault for 40 years.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: davinci; florence; godsgravesglyphs; isleworth; isleworthmonalisa; italy; leonardo; leonardodavinci; monalisa; santissimaannunziata
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posted on
10/01/2012 5:51:32 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
Younger, yes. But a “less enigmatic smile?” No.
The smiles look identical—however the older/newer Mona Lisa has EYES which have a more mysterious look...in my humble opinion.
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posted on
10/01/2012 5:56:59 AM PDT
by
AnalogReigns
(I'm an Anglican (NOT an Episcopalian))
To: jmcenanly
Passport “photos” ... 10 years apart ...
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:01:41 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him. (R. Heinlein - "If This Goes On"))
To: jmcenanly
Poor thing.....she only has one outfit :>)
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:04:02 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
To: jmcenanly
Dalderbash and cockypop !
Obviously age regression photoshop.
the hands are identical
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:05:44 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: knarf
Obviously age regression photoshop.
I don't think it is a modern photoshop job at all but I can see why you might think that. I think Leonardo re-painted it, making an updated copy of his original, without the model.
Still the best eyes in the history of art.
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:14:17 AM PDT
by
newheart
(At what point does policy become treason?)
To: jmcenanly
(After FIRST portrait): “Leo, does that background make me look fat?”
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:16:38 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Once more, per favore...)
To: jmcenanly
Personally, I think it’s a fake made by some talented art forger. It is inconceivable that a second work would lie around unnoticed for this long given the notariety of Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa.
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:22:15 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Obama loved the poor so much, he created millions more.)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:24:59 AM PDT
by
IM2MAD
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:28:37 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: knarf
Too many hard shadows in the "younger" one...and it would be ridiculous to paint the same pose ten years later. For what??? To improve on his work??
I believe the newly found young Mona is on canvas while Davinci painted on wood.
But then....perhaps the new one is the real Davinci...wouldn't that be a .........
To: jmcenanly
It’s a paint by numbers...
To: newheart
It’s over a a century old - but still likely a copy, not a da Vinci.
To: IM2MAD
“It’s fun.”
While the premise is sound, and you can clearly see there is a difference in the two upside down portraits—there are also shenanigans going on as the pictures rotate. Watch closely and you will see how the eyes become MUCH more downcast and the frowning mouth more accentuated while the picture is rotating.
To: jmcenanly
Davinci copied his own work?? Yeh right....
To: jmcenanly
I’m holding out for the baby pictures.
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:48:28 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I love to watch you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."--Del Shannon)
To: AnalogReigns
Now THIS is an enigmatic smile:
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posted on
10/01/2012 6:52:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The American news media, the 'Pravda Press', is fully Soviet-ized.)
To: Dr. Sivana
The incredible Mona Fetus.
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posted on
10/01/2012 7:03:13 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The American news media, the 'Pravda Press', is fully Soviet-ized.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Of course, then there is the painting of Mona Lisa 12 years after she died:
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posted on
10/01/2012 7:06:39 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The American news media, the 'Pravda Press', is fully Soviet-ized.)
To: knarf
Not only are the hands identical, but the wrinkles in the sleeves are identical as well.
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posted on
10/01/2012 7:07:18 AM PDT
by
catman67
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