Discover the 8 biggest secrets in Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' painting

It has been 500 years since the great painter Leonardo da Vinci was born, the Mona Lisa painting has been curious for many analysts, from art, science, optical analysis to psychological analysis. The ambiguity of the model's expression, the incredible part of the face and the skillful drawing techniques make the Mona Lisa always associated with two mysterious words.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) is a great Italian artist, recognized as an almighty genius of the world. He is a painter, architect, sculptor, engineer, musician, doctor, anatomist, natural philosopher, creator. Leonardo da Vinci is a very mysterious person, he often sends messages through symbols in his work.

Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

After nearly half a century, eight mysteries were discovered in Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting.

Mysterious smile

According to the researchers, Leonardo Da Vinci used the technique he taught himself "Sfumato", a way to draw blurred shades to create the perfect portrait of the Mona Lisa. It was this technique that created an illusion of the "mysterious smile" for Mona Lisa.

A mysterious smile for hundreds of years.

When viewers look at the picture, they will see Mona Lisa smiling through her eyes but when she looks down at the lips, the smile seems to disappear.

The password is hidden in the eyes

Thanks to advanced technology, researchers in the Italian National Committee on Cultural Heritage resolved the highest quality painting and discovered in the eyes of the Mona Lisa that contained many tiny numbers and letters.

Accordingly, Mona Lisa's right eye has the character LV, which may be the initials of Leonardo da Vinci. The left eye also has a letter but it is not determined whether it is CE or B, the number of eyes is 72, or L and 2 because the picture is no longer sharp.

Mona Lisa's facial expression

In 2005, scholars at the University of Illinois, USA, collaborated with scientists at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands to assess the emotional state of the Mona Lisa's face. They calculated Mona Lisa's face on a scientific perspective and made her face appear 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% scared, angry 2%, less than 1% neutral and 0% surprised.

Recently, German scientists have used the method of analyzing every element on the face (eyes, smiles) to assess the emotions on the Mona Lisa's face. The team moved the Mona Lisa's mouth in different angles to create 8 changing images of the corner of the Mona Lisa's mouth and reached a conclusion: Her face showed joy.

Mona Lisa has eyebrows and eyelashes

Close-up photo of Mona Lisa's eyes.

In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte used a 240-megapixel Multi-spectral camera he designed himself, using 13 waves of ultraviolet rays to infrared to scan the picture. He discovered that the Mona Lisa was not without eyebrows and eyelashes as we thought.

Even the Mona Lisa's eyes have a brush stroke on her eyebrows. But so far, no one has been able to understand the meaning of Da Vinci when hiding the outline of her eyebrows and eyelashes.

Mona Lisa's golden aspect

In art and mathematics, two quantities are called "golden ratios" if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger quantity is equal to the ratio between larger quantities and smaller quantities.

From the picture, the Mona Lisa's face can be seen in a golden rectangle and the structure of the rest of the painting is also structured in a golden spiral.

Mona Lisa is pregnant

When studying Mona Lisa's costumes, the researchers discovered many suspicious points. They used infrared reflection method on the picture and discovered the Mona Lisa's shirt is a shirt to reveal bare shoulders, very thin pieces of chiffon covering the shirt, lightly covering the shoulders. left and even back of chair.

Even, the piece of chiffon seems to be sewn with the upper hem of the embroidery collar very cleverly and worn as an outer garment.

According to the researchers, this type of outfit is very popular in the Renaissance and is a type of blouse for children, women who are pregnant or have just given birth.

Kenneth Kill, a British doctor, also said that Da Vinci's painting conveys the content of the pregnant woman.

Animal images appear behind the Mona Lisa

According to experts, we can see the image of a head of a buffalo, a lion and a monkey in the scenery behind the Mona Lisa, if you complete the lines and rotate an appropriate angle.

Light spots are highlighted to mark the position of animals in the picture.

The heads of the animals are reproduced more clearly.

They even found a crocodile or snake hidden in the Mona Lisa's left hand.

Mysterious in Mona Lisa's hands

In the picture, the Mona Lisa's right hand is horizontal beneath her belly, this is the first time an artist has put the model's arms and wrists in such a position.

Experts found that the color painted just below the right wrist completely matched the color of the fabric covering her knees, which meant: her arms and wrists supported a blanket.

Although they discovered this, they still didn't understand what the message Da Vinci meant.

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