Have you ever seen something many times and don't realize it is missing something?
Leonard Da Vinci was a procrastinator. Apparently he didn't finish the Mona Lisa. Why do the experts think this? She has no eye brows.
I have seen this portrait in person many times and didn't realize it. Ok, just another useless piece of trivia for a dreary Monday morning in Florida. Sorry the picture is crooked. I am short and there were too many selfies being taken to get it straight.
My daughter shaved off her eyebrows and hair around her ears when she was 11 years old,. For some reason she looked in the mirror and didn’t like either and got my razor and did it secretly. She had a moon face for over 6 weeks and I told her
@cherokeepatti well my eye brows fell out. i had permanent tattooing in its place. nothing wrong with me. i just lost most of my hair. but 11? wowee..i hope they grew back.
@akindheart yes they grew back. That girl was always cutting the hair off of her dolls. Every Barbie doll she whacked the hair off. I don’t know what her problem was. I threw all those dolls away after she grew up and left them in her toy box.
@SW-User Apparently so. Now make colored Sharpie eyebrows great. Brown, blonde, ginger and even neon colors to match those colors of dyed hair. I think if we put it out there on the internet as a new challenge to these young-uns it will happen. Doesn’t take much to get a fad started.
Ah, the mysteries of the Mona Lisa – who knew she was missing her brows! Leonardo must have been caught up in a brow-plucking trend of the Renaissance. 😄 Thanks for adding some artful amusement! And no worries about the picture – it's just adding an avant-garde touch to the whole Mona Lisa experience. Maybe she's just trying to keep up with all those selfies! 🎨🤳
This is not the first time I've heard the no eyebrows thing,
Last time I heard about it I googled and found this...
The Mona Lisa when Da Vinci painted her did indeed have eyebrows but that over time and over cleaning have eroded them to the point that they are no longer visible.
Pascal Cotte, an engineer who has been studying the Mona Lisa using highly detailed scans explained:
“If you look closely at Mona Lisa’s eye you can clearly see that the cracks around the eye have slightly disappeared, and that may be explained that one day a curator or restorer cleaned the eye, and cleaning the eye, probably removed the eyelashes and eyebrow,” he said.
Cotte, says that from these scans he can see traces of a left eyebrow long obscured from the naked eye by the efforts of the art restorers.
@Blondily i think i saw the article in the Smithsonian or History magazine. his biggest competition was Michaelangelo. and how long it took him to finish pieces. i guess either could be true-unfinished or cleaning
@Thinkerbell what a beautiful portrait. it could be. you can never get up close enough to the Mona Lisa to check it out. i just saw the article and thought it was neat.
@PhoenixPhail i saw it this year at the Louvre. i have been many times. you can't get near it because of all the selfies.. it is a masterpiece. h ung in Napoleon's bedroom.
