Mona Lisa's eyes hide message

[Keith Ranville]

An Italian art researcher says Leonardo da Vinci painted tiny letters behind the eyes of the Mona Lisa that may be a clue to her identity.

Silvano Vinceti, chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage, said the letters are invisible to the naked eye, but were revealed through high-resolution imagery.

"Leonardo was keen on symbols and codes to get messages across, and he wanted us to know the identity of the model using the eyes, which he believed were the door to the soul and a means for communication," Vinceti told the Guardian newspaper.

The letters were created in black with a very fine brush.

Behind the right pupil of the unknown woman called Mona Lisa are the letters L, V — Leonardo's initials. Her left pupil is more of a mystery — Vinceti said the letters there are either B, S, or C, E.

The art expert also claims to have found the number 72, or possibly L2, under the bridge that appears behind her.

The woman with the enigmatic smile is commonly thought to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant. But Vinceti believes the painting was created in Milan and says the woman may be from the court of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan.

Vinceti, who earlier this year exhumed bones believed to belong to the painter Caravaggio, says he is studying historical records in an effort to identify the subject of the famous painting.

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[Selecia]

Gee, what would the number 72 signify?

[Keith Ranville]

Gee, what would the number 72 signify?

Hi Selecia,

Here's a theory to the da vinci mona lisa eye code it may mean its his his mother ?



Leonardo da vinci's mona lisa eyes encodes his mothers love in symbolic measures digits in eyes discovered in da vinci painting - Mona Lisa.



Identity of model mona lisa is his mother he has his mothers eyes in more than words can say.

Paintings background- L2 = Leonardo 2nd of 2

Right eye- LV - Leonardo's venience

Left eye- C E (B) Leonardo's mother name Caterina a barmaid that was presumed from the village of Anchiano but most likely worked in Empoli near to Leonardo's birthplace- "Leonardo's birthplace was in the small village of Vinci located between the Tuscan cities of Pistoia and Empoli."

Reference to Theory

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/real-life-da-vinci-code-in-mona-lisa-s-eyes-uncovered-72305

http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/life.html

Keith,

[Selecia]

Thanks for checking on that.  Who would have thought that the eyes had so much mysteries to them?  The painting has been stared at for centuries.