How the Mona Lisa Lost Her Eyebrows
November 16, 2009 by All Art
Filed under Art Reviews
Pascal Cotte said Leonardo built the painting up in layers, the last being a special glaze whose optical properties increased the illusion of a three-dimensional face. Above the glaze Leonardo painted details such as the eyebrows.
Cotte said: “That could explain why the eyebrows have disappeared – they have faded because of chemical reactions or they have been cleaned off.”
He has uncovered a host of secrets about the Mona [...]
