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Sensitive Digital Photography Reveals Mona Lisa Details

Link link by VnutZ on 19 October 2007, tagged as photography and art

Using a super-sensitive digital camera tuned not only for incredible resolution but also non-visible spectra, a researcher has uncovered both lost and hidden elements of the Mona Lisa.

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A single brush stroke? by Brandon :: NR9

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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