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.
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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.
