Revelations about Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and the machines created from designs by the Renaissance master will be shown at National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall from Feb. 12 through May 13.
Genius
The exhibition, entitled “Da Vinci the Genius,” will feature 188 works, including replicas and mechanical models based on Da Vinci’s codices and 25 revelations about the famous painting Mona Lisa.
It is hoped that viewers will be able to glimpse the creative genius of Da Vinci as an artist, inventor, scientist, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, biologist, musician, architect and philosopher, based on his codices, the curator of the exhibition said.
He said viewers would discover the answer to the long-held question of whether Mona Lisa had eyebrows.
“The mystery was solved by a French scientific engineer and photographer of fine art Pascal Cotte,” the curator said.
Cotte invented a 240-million pixel camera to photograph the Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum in Paris.
With this equipment, he was able to obtain the most accurate replica of the masterpiece ever achieved.
Spoiler alert
Cotte identified the original pigments in the painting, proving that the subject did indeed originally have eyebrows and eyelashes.
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