Original Face of Monalisa

Original Face of Monalisa. Have no eyebrows isn't a weird thing for women of today who was fond of preen. Shave off the hair on the top of the eye that was deliberately done in order to facilitate them to paint the eyebrows are arched a perfect in the morning. But Mona Lisa is not a woman of today. Wives of merchants from the Florentine painted by Leonardo Da Vinci's life in the 16th century. So the question arises as to why the woman in the painting of it at all does not have any eyebrows, even eyelashes.

Some researchers state that plucked the hair on the face is a common practice for civilized women at that time. Therefore, it is considered an elegant hair look. Of course this explanation unsatisfactory many connoisseurs of women smile full of question marks. Pascal Cotte was one of them. Parisians are often wonder why the Mona Lisa painting is different from the maestro. Da Vinci always put the eyebrows and eyelashes at all his paintings.

Works of Da Vinci's most famous work is indeed is not new stuff for Cotte. In 1969, a small card pass Cotte borrows his mother belonged to the Metro and go to the Louvre Museum to see for yourself what he called his mother as the most beautiful paintings in the world. Boy 11 years it stood for hours in front of the painting etrsebut, very long that a guard museum offers his seat.

Already 35 years passed, Cotte--who is now an engineer engineering--back spending three hours in front of the painting. However, this time he brought a giant camera and permission to remove the painting from the frame and the pengamannya. Photographs snapshots Cotte, including the eyes, mouth, and hands are magnified 20 times, exhibited at the Metreon, San Francisco, United States.

Spy photos are enlarged is finally answering the question Cotte. When researching that photo, he found a piece of hair on the forehead left the Mona Lisa, proof of something that was once the eyebrows. There is a possibility the eyebrows is lost because the pigments of paint fade or disappear because of the bungled attempt restoration. "I was one of the engineers and scientists. For me, it all has to be reasonable, "he said. "It makes no sense that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes. I found a piece of hair alisnya. "

In addition to finding the eyebrows, Cotte creating reproductions of it called high definition is most accurate paintings of 500 years old. Thanks to the technique of scanning image 240 million pixels using the color spectrum of 13, including ultraviolet and infrared, Cotte could display color of the original painting was completed when the new Da Vinci.

Cotte said digital scanning that allows ultradetail painting he dug through a pile of effectively paint layers and see the face of the original Lisa Gherardini, women in these paintings. "Just one photo, you can further deepen construction painting it and understand that Leonardo was a genius," said Cotte in the opening of the exhibition "Da Vinci: An exhibition of Genius" in San Francisco, last Wednesday.

Camera supercanggih born of expertise Cotte in optics and light that helps him examine paintings became his obsession. Men's 50-year estimate no less than 3,000 hours spent scanning results data for analyzing the Mona Lisa made in the laboratory of the Louvre on three years ago.

Sensor detection of light from the infrared spectrum of colors to the invisible ultraviolet and human eye also reveals many details that are missing from the paintings. This makes the picture zoom in Cotte could see changes in the position of the right hand of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, located right in the stomach.

Before Mona Lisa, there has never been painting portraits with the position of hand like that. Though not knowing the reason Da Vinci, many painters who imitate that position.

Cotte find pigment under the exact same right wrist with a blanket covering the knees of the Mona Lisa. It explains that the forearm and wrist are holding one side of the quilt. "It's right wrist is located far above her stomach," said Cotte. "But, if viewed more in using infrared, you will know that he is holding a blanket with his wrist."

Infrared image of it also revealed the sketches that are under a pile of layers of paint and varnish. Cotte said it shows that Da Vinci is also human. "If you pay attention to his left hand, You can see the position of the first fingers and change his mind and his other position," he said. "Even Da Vinci had doubts."

Results of the analysis also reveals the original color Cotte painting it. Time, varnish, and restoration led to the painting which is now tucked away behind bulletproof glass that looked full of dark green color, yellow, and Brown.

However, 22 GB digital photo produced 13 different color filters, the filter is not three or four colors that are commonly found in the camera.