German experts crack Mona Lisa smile?

January 14, 2008 4:00 PM | No Comments

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Via Reuters/Yahoo! News:

German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait. [...] Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo [the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo] was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world.

Cool.

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