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People Won’t Stop Demanding The Mona Lisa To Be Cleaned, So Someone Just Explained What Would Happen
In fact, some restoration work was done in 1809 on the original Mona Lisa, and that’s why it looks so ‘washed out’ as some ...
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A timeline of attacks on the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa was only slightly damaged; the rock chipped off a tiny speck of paint, but restorers were able to quickly make the repair. In a rare international trip, the Mona Lisa left the Louvre ...
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Da Vinci’s Secret Drawing Underneath The ‘Mona Lisa’ Reveals How Different This Masterpiece Almost Was
Pascal Cotte via artnet NewsA study 15 years in the making revealed a hidden drawing underneath the Mona Lisa‘s surface. Centuries after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa still has ...
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Eight things we learned about the theft of the Mona Lisa
If that isn’t bad enough, the job itself was hazardous because paint contained lead at the ... could have been a factor in Vincenzo’s theft of the Mona Lisa. In 1910, Vincenzo begins working ...