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Scientists want to dig up Da Vinci’s bones to solve Mona Lisa mystery

25 January 2010 3 Comments

Posted by Sherwin

Mona Lisa Da vinci

Scientists and historians are hoping to dig up the remains of Leonardo da Vinci to determine if the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, is actually a self-portrait.

A team from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage has requested that Da Vinci’s tomb at Amboise Castle in the Loire valley be opened.

The woman in the famed masterpiece has never been identified, leading some scholars to speculate that the Italian polymath’s presumed homosexuality and love of riddles led him to paint himself as a woman.

“If we manage to find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo’s face and compare it with the Mona Lisa,” Giorgio Gruppione, an anthropologist, was quoted in the London Times as saying.

However, the plans have incited disapproval from Da Vinci scholars who regard the notion of a self-portrait as a myth and who believe his remains should be left alone.

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  • victoriazinn

    Experts Hope Identify Mona Lisa or solve riddle, in what way?
    questions about the Mona Lisa mounting in every corner a new one, questions are opinions in this issue of the art! if he was Mona Lisa in drag then the question(opinion) they want is, was he gay? going around disguised as a pregnant woman. Is that possible? after all that beard he is famous for. Mistake is that we fell in love with the painting Mona Lisa first, even those who didn't love it get the feel of the fame this painting took over all his other work.To me he was a researcher more than a painter, his painting of human bodies are used as dummies by him, had many examples of that in this case altering may occur. He was the one who wanted to find out the brushed lay bewteen man/woman, but she was only a model, in Mon Salai that was her in man clothe with rearranged alphabets of Mona Lisa. The fantastic work bewteen him and his best model, Mona.
    I actually see more of her features in female paintings he is done and more of her in altered paintings he is done, we all know of an opinion that maybe as old as the painting it self that she is ugly, not to me. But some even see a soft looking guy/boy in her features.
    That makes me lean towards beliving that she was the human factor behind all that noise, he was the genius that took advantage of it.
    As for who was she? why the fuss? A model named Mona Lisa, common combine name. Mona believed to be Irish and Lisa is derived from Alexy/Alexandra or Elissa, 15th century is not that ancient of time!
    Biography they need doesn't have to be through cancelling her existance first, follow up is what needed.

  • victoriazinn

    Experts Hope Identify Mona Lisa or solve riddle, in what way? questions about the Mona Lisa mounting in every corner a new one, questions are opinions in this issue of the art! if he was Mona Lisa in drag then the question(opinion) they want is, was he gay? going around disguised as a pregnant woman. Is that possible? after all that beard he is famous for. Mistake is that we fell in love with the painting Mona Lisa first, even those who didn't love it get the feel of the fame this painting took over all his other work.To me he was a researcher more than a painter, his painting of human bodies are used as dummies by him, had many examples of that. In this case altering may occur. He was the one who wanted to find out the brushed lay bewteen man/woman, but she was only a model, in Mon Salai that was her in man clothe with rearranged alphabets of Mona Lisa. The fantastic work bewteen him and his best model, Mona. I actually see more of her features in female paintings he is done and more of her in altered paintings he is done, we all know of an opinion that maybe as old as the painting it self that she is ugly, not to me. But some even see a soft looking guy/boy in her features. That makes me lean towards beliving that she was the human factor behind all that noise, he was the genius that took advantage of it. As for who was she? why the fuss? A model named Mona Lisa, common combine name. Mona believed to be Irish and Lisa is derived from Alexy/Alexandra or Elissa, 15th century is not that ancient of times Biography they need doesn't have to be through cancelling her existance first, follow up is what needed.