Does Mona Lisa Have Hidden Symbols?

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Many songs have been sung about the hidden mysteries of Leonardo Da Vinci's well known 16th century painting, the Mona Lisa.

A member of the National Committee for Cultural Heritage in Italy, Luigi Borgia, confirms that he has found, in an old dusty volume on the portrait, a series of numbers and letters hidden within those famously enigmatic eyes.

The historian firmly believes he has uncovered LV (possibly standing for the painter's initials) in one eye and in the other they're still accessing whether or not the figures are C and E, B and S, the number 72, or L2.

The fifty year old volume tells how the Mona Lisa's eyes contain a variety of signs and symbols said Borgia: "We are only at the start of this investigation and we hope to be able to dig deeper into this mystery and reveal further details as soon as possible. It's remarkable that no-one has noticed these symbols before and from the preliminary investigations we have carried out we are confident they are not a mistake and were put there by the artist."

Da Vinci's masterpiece has long been considered to be a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of an extremely successful silk and fabric merchant in Florence. However with these letters and possible numbers (that do not seem to add up to LG), that long held opinion may now be questioned.

Still the detection of the figures, while thrilling and enticing to speculate about, have to reveal exactly what they are. They could be old fashioned and worthless, or they could disclose the secret to the real identity of the Mona Lisa.


"Your eyes send mixed signals to your brain, when you view the famous portrait, making you believe that the model is smiling one moment, but deadly serious the next, says Luis Martinez Otero, a neuroscientist at Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante of Spain. In 2009 he claimed that Mona Lisas smile no longer held any secrets.

Different cells in the retina broadcast different categories of information or "channels" to the brain. These canals program data in relation to an object's size, clarity, brightness and location in the visual field.

Otero, who conducted the study along with Diego Alonso Pablos says "Sometimes one channel wins over the other, and you see the smile, sometimes others take over and you don't see the smile".

A U.S.A. team in 2005 concluded that random noise in the path of the retina to the visual cortex, decides whether we see a smile or not.

Margaret Livingstone, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School with a side interest in art history, confirmed in 2000, that Mona Lisa's smile is easier to see in peripheral vision, than when you are looking directly at the painting with fovea vision, (the sharp central vision).

Many experts say the right side of the mouth seems to be that of a smile, while the left side of the mouth holds a solemn expression. Did Leonardo deliberately set out to sow so much confusion in the brains of viewers, not to mention scientists? Absolutely, contends one of the experts.

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