Yesterday's blog made me start thinking about smiles,before long I remembered recently reading about the enigmatic "Mona Lisa" smile. According to recent tests done on the painting it was revealed that efforts at restoration of the famous piece over the years had resulted in the removal of the eyebrows,so all those nagging questions and theories about why Mona Lisa was painted without eyebrows or eyelashes can be laid to rest. You are probably wondering at this point how that relates to her smile,as the testing (involving multi-spectral imaging,which uses 13 wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared) was peeling the years away to show how the figure first appeared, it also showed her face was slightly wider and the smile was more accentuated. Who knows? without the bungled attempts to restore the piece it might never have achieved the fame it now enjoys.
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