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Oh, That Famous Enigmatic Smile..
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The famous Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo Davinci.. kept at Louvre Museum, Paris.
( the protective thick security glass which covers the original painting at Louvre has caused some distortions to my picture.. Frankly, I had so much difficulty in taking this shot over the heads of multitude of visitors flowing like a river across the large hall as if they are on a pilgrimage. It only increased my admiration of the painting and my respect to the artist, as I spent time watching the crowd for a finer moment to shoot without someone hitting me on teh elbow!!)

The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art and
continues to inspire reproduction, parody, scientific theory, and more.
In 2003-2006 we celebrated the 500th anniversary of the painting
which now has it's own room at the Louvre. The painting has achieved
celebrity status and is continually appearing as subject
of news articles around the globe.

The painting is kept on the wall of a large room(as big as a church hall and covered with protective glass screwed on top.
Never in the history of Art has one painting been so admired. This is due largely to the enigmatic smile, which has caused much speculation.

The only reliable explanation of the 'mysterious Mona' lies within the painting itself. A painting created by a philosopher and an artist like Leonardo is not merely a beautiful image for decorating a 'Medicean saloon', but the painter's statement-his word.
Never in the history of Art has one painting been so admired. This is due largely to the enigmatic smile, which has caused much speculation.

Nobody knows for certain whom Leonardo’s Mona Lisa represents. Is Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo looking at us, or is it Leonardo’s girlish lover, his mother, or is it a compound image, perhaps even a hermaphrodite, representing several persons at the same time?
One theory is that the Mona Lisa is in fact a portrait of the artist's mother. Mystery of the Mona Lisa is an extensive research, lush, well written tale, set against the background of Italy in the 15th Century. Rich in detail and historically accurate, this unfolds the story of the early family life of the man that many consider to be the greatest creative genius in history, Leonardo da Vinci.

Dr. Lillian Schwartz of Bell Labs suggests that Leonardo painted himself, and was able to support her theory by analyzing the facial features of Leonardo's face and that of the famous painting, She digitized both the self-portrait of the artist and the Mona Lisa. She flipped the self portrait and merged the two images together using a computer. She noticed the features of the face aligned perfectly! You may draw your own conclusion.

A computer has been used to decipher the enigmatic smile of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, concluding that she was mainly happy.The painting was analysed by a University of Amsterdam computer using "emotion recognition" software.It concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry, New Scientist magazine was told.

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