{"id":230,"date":"2007-10-27T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/mona-lisa-lashes-new-findings\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:18:00","slug":"mona-lisa-lashes-new-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/mona-lisa-lashes-new-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Lisa Lashes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/monalisa.html\">Da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa<\/a> has fascinated art historians. A French Scientist has researched the answers behind the fate of the Mona Lisa\u2019s missing eyebrows and lashes.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Cotte, the French Scientist, says his ultra-detailed digital scans of the masterpiece allow him to effectively skim through layers of paint to \u201csee\u201d into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s 16th-century portrait of a Florentine merchant\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cotte, the world\u2019s most famous painting originally included both brows and lashes. 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