Mommy Lisa?
Researchers may have found the answer to the age old question, “What is the Mona Lisa smiling about?”
She could have been pregnant! Or just have delivered her baby.
The greenish looking cape around the Mona Lisa’s shoulders might actually a guarnello – a gauzy veil worn by pregnant women and women who had just given birth.
The paint darkened with age and that’s why it looks green or almost black now.
Teams from the National Research Council of Canada used 3-D images to come up with this theory.
I think that’s really cool, and as a co-worker of mine pointed out, the Mona Lisa now joins a fairly exclusive club of posing pregnant women – Demi Moore and Britney Spears.
She could have been pregnant! Or just have delivered her baby.
The greenish looking cape around the Mona Lisa’s shoulders might actually a guarnello – a gauzy veil worn by pregnant women and women who had just given birth.
The paint darkened with age and that’s why it looks green or almost black now.
Teams from the National Research Council of Canada used 3-D images to come up with this theory.
I think that’s really cool, and as a co-worker of mine pointed out, the Mona Lisa now joins a fairly exclusive club of posing pregnant women – Demi Moore and Britney Spears.
posted by Pregnantly Plump at 10:33 PM
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