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A single brush stroke?

Comment comment by Brandon on 20 October 2007

I know Leonardo was a great painter, but can we really deduce from "a single brush stroke of a single hair above the left brow" that she had eyebrows and eyelashes? Is it not possible it's just an errant stroke? Or the 500 years of aging introduced it instead of erasing everything else?

In all fairness, though, some of the other discoveries are really cool.

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RE: A single brush stroke? by scottb :: NR7

Or the 500 years of aging introduced it instead of erasing everything else?

Or even that Da Vinci himself put the eyebrow there and changed his mind. He worked on the sucker for four years, then let it sit for about a decade, then worked on it for another three years up to just before he died. He's known to have changed his mind about other things - the referenced article points how he changed her hand position from its original placement.

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