This could be the height of absurdity, but if it could finally put to rest the intriguing question of whether or not the renowned painting of Mona Lisa is deceitfully Leonardo da Vinci himself, well, why not!
It is said that scientists and historians from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage have sought permission to exhume the remains of da Vinci’s in France’s Loire Valley to allow them to establish whether the Mona Lisa is a disguised self-portrait.
The scientists feel confident that they can solve the mystery surrounding the identity of the Mona Lisa that has been questioned for centuries now. All they have to do is find the artist’s skull so they could reconstruct his face to discover whether his famed masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is in fact a self-portrait in disguise.
Da Vinci has been presumed by scholars all these years to be homosexual and that his love for mystery and guessing games led him to paint himself as a woman
hahaha.. does that mean mona lisa didnt exist? hihi
Could be da Vinci’s version of our modern day “ladlad!”
all i can say is wow
Methinks there are more serious and important problems in the world to solve ,instead of finding out if the Mona Lisa is a self- portrait or whatever. I mean, is it really that important to know ? (^o^)What if he was a homosexual ? Would that change anything?
This now belongs to the crazy peculiarity of people and the busybodies, if you know what I mean.
I don’t think it would change anything , Da Vinci was a brilliant man and a visionary way ahead of his time , not that it’s a problem but I think if you have an interesting subject such as this there will be people that take different sides of this debate and devote time to ponder it… Also love the oldEnglish !
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Some people have a drive to answer questions about their environment! For some people a question is no big deal, and they ponder on it for a little while, and let it go. For some people a question is a burning desire to know, and I would guess that’s the case here. Personally, I don’t feel that way about art, but something that big on a subject I was interested in…we’d be grabbing our shovels and flashlights.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I’m amazed so few people have seen the obvious similarity,
it would be nice to credit the man with a sense of humour
as well as being the artistic and mechanical and mathematical and . . .
genius that he was. Stephen Fry, polymath, lover of the absurd,
take a leaf out of Leonardo’s book and leave with a witty enigma
rather than stating the obvious.
{Stephen Fry is a trifle irrelevant, but I am sure your split image will
appear on QI in the not too distant future) The split image you have
fabricated is excellent, I was looking for a Da Vinci s/p myself to do something similar, but couldn’t think further than having the two pictures next to each other.
Do you have to exhume the skull to see the joke, does the size of his right nostril mean that it can’t be true? I don’t think a ruler will prove
anything. It would be better to demonstrate other examples of his wit,
his attitudes towards himself and his contemporaries to show that he
was capable of such behaviour. I like to think you are right.
Thanks. Appreciate your comments.
i just want to know the truth. I am really interested with Mona lisa
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I came to the self-portrait conclusion myself, independent of more scholarly analysis, decades ago. It’s especially intriguing if you layer the accepted self-portrait over the Mona Lisa as a mirror image (as in Leonardo’s cryptic writing) of itself. Matches perfectly. Try it.
There you go! Thanks.
It could be true the Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of Da Vinci himself showing his feminine side considering that Da Vinci is homosexual. Mona Lisa is either a man or a woman. This could be shown not only by the painting itself but as well as the name, Mona Lisa. The name Mona Lisa derived from the two god and goddess of fertility. AMON, the god of fertility and ISIS the goddess of fertility wherein the name ISIS had a previous name of L’ISA. So AMON + L’ISA = Mona Lisa.
Thanks for the interesting info.