French art expert, Pascal Cotte has uncovered a host of secrets. He has analyzed Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa using a240 megapixel camera. According to him, the Mona Lisa had eyebrows.
Leonardo da Vinci 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 da Vinci painted details such as eyebrows, said Pascal Cotte.
He said Mona Lisa looked totally different 500 ye...
A latest exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum has put more than 100 personal letters in which he discusses his craft on display alongside the actual paintings. Considering the letters next to the paintings underlines Van Gogh’s professionalism, which is sometimes, overlooked amid spectacular biographical details such as his mental illness his amputation of his own left ear and his suicide at the age of 37. In the letters he writes about both the philosophy of paintings and technical details. In a l...
