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Why Monalisa Don't Have Eyebrows?

Exploring The Secret Facts Behind

By AkhileshPublished 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago 3 min read
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Why Monalisa Don't Have Eyebrows? Exploring The Secret Facts Behind

The renowned painting painted by the world-famous Italian Painter Leonardo da Vinci has no eyebrows. We all have seen the Mona Lisa, but haven't carefully seen the picture. What happened? Did da Vinci forget to draw them? Or did he draw the Mona Lisa with little care or left it without eyebrows? These are the most probable questions I have seen everywhere. So let's find out the answers for these.

The first shocking fact is that the Mona Lisa is not the real name of the woman painted by da Vinci. It is Lisa Gherardini, a woman who was the spouse of Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy man, who worked in Florence, Italy. The middle sixteenth-century biographer Giorgio Vasari, gave the name the Mona Lisa to the painting. The names of the painting before that was La Gioconda in Italian or La Joconde in French.

An interesting fact about the Mona Lisa is that she has her own mailbox in the great Louvre museum because of the vast amount of love letters coming to her. many people including artists have died for her. Luc Maspero, an artist suicided by falling from the fourth floor of a hotel in Paris by leaving a suicide note about her. Lot many like him had suicided for her.

I don't know what had happened to these people to give love letters and suicide for a painting, which is not alive? I see no reason for suiciding or loving such a painting... Maybe, that is the plays of each individual's psychological state...

The shocking facts are about people who try to destroy this piece of art. One such attack by Ugo Ungaza Villegas, a Bolivian, caused damage to her left elbow. After that, an acid attack was also held. Later, a bulletproof was made and the Mona Lisa on its protection which had protected it from many huge disasters!

Now let's come to our point.

What happened to the Mona Lisa? Why she doesn't have any eyebrows? So let's look at a simple history:

At the time of the Mona Lisa, it was the time of the Renaissance. At the time of the renaissance, it was a fashion of women to shave their eyebrows. Wome shaved facial hair including eyebrows at those times. So it may have made him didn't draw eyebrows for his painting. Or it could be like Lisa Gherardini had no eyebrows. There is a debate that Leonardo had first painted the Mona Lisa with eyebrows but later erased them. But there is a similar debate that the Mona Lisa had eyebrows and later got erased due to years. It is also said that it was the fashion of that time for women to shave their eyebrows and every facial hair. Some also show this as a shred of evidence to declare that the Mona Lisa is an unfinished piece of art by da Vinci.

Anyway, the truth was uncovered by scientists who studied the picture carefully. A series of ultra-detailed digital scans of the painting in 2007 proved that da Vinci had already painted the eyebrows with bolder eyelashes. But when time changed, the painting had its own changes. The eyelashes and eyebrows of the Mona Lisa had simply faded over time due to the restoration of this masterpiece work.

Whatever other people say is not needed anymore; because we have already proved the fact scientifically.

The Mona Lisa had any eyebrows?

Yes, the Mona Lisa had eyebrows and eyelashes that had faded along with time.

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  • The Invisible Writer8 months ago

    Nice article I learned a lot thank you for writing

  • L.C. Schäfer8 months ago

    I wonder what she would have looked like with eyebrows!

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