Topic > Analysis of the Leonardo Da Vinci Codex - 746

I must say that there are some strange attributes in the image; he has no eyelids or eyebrows and one finger on his left hand is unfinished. Below we find some explanations for these unusual features: In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte announced that his very high-resolution scans of the painting provide evidence that the Mona Lisa was originally painted with visible eyelashes and eyebrows, but that these had gradually disappeared . over time, perhaps due to excessive cleaning. Another opinion by Kathleen Grace, an artist, art consultant and instructor for 30 years, makes the following statement: “Most of Da Vinci's works show no eyelashes on women, or very little, and the eyebrows are all very thin, barely showing a hint of it. … Raphael did the same, and Michelangelo didn't do the eyelashes either, many painters of that time didn't do that.” Another point of view of some researchers, which claims that at that time it was common for noble women to pluck these hairs, since they were considered