Suspected of having 'another woman' hidden behind Mona Lisa

Behind the beautiful Mona Lisa in Da Vinci's painting masterpiece can hide the portrait of a completely different woman.

Is there another "woman" under the picture of Mona Lisa?

Pascal Cotte is a scientist and co-founder of Lumiere Technology in Paris, France, specializing in digitizing art works through multi-spectral photographs. In 2004, he was allowed by the Lourve Museum to study the painting of Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519).

Cotte confirmed the reflective light technology applied by the pioneer, revealing the portrait of a completely different woman hidden behind the surface of the painting. In particular, this woman is not in the position of looking straight and smiling like the famous Mona Lisa, looking to one side.

Maybe the woman hidden under the surface of the painting is the real Lisa.(Photo: Wikimedia).

According to Discovery News, Cotte announced its findings at a press conference yesterday in Shanghai, China. The researcher uses a technique called Classroom Amplifier Method (LAM) to analyze the picture of Mona Lisa. By projecting a series of intense light rays at the painting and measuring light reflection, Cotte reconstructed what was created between layers of the painting.

"We can now analyze exactly what is in the drawing layer and peel off the layers like peeling onions. We can reconstruct all the sequences that create the painting. The results help answer many words. rumors and forever changing the way we see Leonardo's masterpiece , " Cotte told the BBC.

The picture of Mona Lisa was completed by Leonardo at the end of his life. The long debate over the identity of women in the painting almost ended in the past decade, when the evidence convinced the University of Heidelberg, Germany library.

Handwritten manuscript expert Armin Schlechter discovered the letter by Agostino Vespucci, a civil servant in Florentine city and an acquaintance of Leonardo da Vinci, on the side of the book he borrowed. In the letter written in 1503, Vespucci asserts that Leonardo is portraying "Lisa del Giocondo" . Based on this, Schlechter concluded that the Mona Lisa was Lisa Gherardini , from a small noble family in the city, the wife of the wealthy merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

But Cotte argues that the image he found under the new painting is the real Lisa, and the portrait named Mona Lisa belongs to another woman."The girl is completely different from the Mona Lisa in the present picture. It's not the same person , " Cotte said.

The Louvre Museum declined to comment on Cotte's discovery. Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of the Department of Art History at Oxford University, England, one of Da Vinci's top scholars, is skeptical.

"The idea of ​​having a picture hidden beneath the surface of the painting is not convincing. I think there is no possibility that each individual stage represents a different portrait. I'm sure Mona Lisa is Lisa." , Kemp said.