Have you ever stared at picture or painting more than once, and every time you look at it, it seems to change? You question whether the image is just your mind playing tricks on you, or whether it is just plane creepy. That is exactly what the Mona Lisa has yielded since its existence to the millions and millions of people that have gazed upon one of the most enigmatic and talked about portraits of all time. The artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, painter of the most parodied work of art in the world, is also one of the most prominent and famed artists in history. It is believed that Da Vinci painted the artwork sometime between 1503 and 1506 and may have continued working on it as late as 1517.
The painting is a half bodywork for a woman named Lisa Gherardini and is perhaps the most studied piece of artwork ever known. The portrait shows Lisa Gherardini sitting upright and sideways on a chair, face and chest turned towards the onlooker. Her left arm sits
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It must have startled the first people who noticed it. Why is that you might ask? The eyes seem to follow you around the room, moving as if by magic. It does not get any more mystical than that. It is one of the biggest reasons this portrait has garnered so much attention, so much so that some people have even come up with the idea that the eyes of the Mona Lisa contain a hidden message made up of letters, symbols and numbers. According to the president of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage the symbols are not visible to the naked eye but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen. In his findings under the magnifying glass the right eye seems to have the letters “LV”. Of course those letters can mean anything but the Committee’s president believes they stand for Leonardo Da Vinci. In the left eye they also found symbols but they were not as defined. They believe the letters to be “CE” or “BE” but were not a hundred percent