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[Mik2121]

Did a search on Google. Mock&Lock if old :/

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Leonardo Da Vinci's 500-year-old Renaissance masterpiece has long been steeped in mystery, and even today the true identity of the woman with the alluring smile still far from certain.
Now members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage have revealed that by magnifying high resolution images of the Mona Lisa's eyes letters and numbers can be seen.
"To the naked the symbols are not visible but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen," said Silvano Vinceti, president of the Committee.

He said: "It is very difficult to make them out clearly but they appear to be the letters CE or it could be the letter B - you have to remember the picture is almost 500 years old so it is not as sharp and clear as when first painted.
"While in the arch of the bridge in the background the number 72 can be seen, or it could be an L and the number 2."

 

[The Lamonster]

"To the naked (folk), the symbols are not visible..."

 

[ElectricBlue187]

So

What are they

 

[Omiee]

they just found this out now..?

 

[GraveRobberX]

So

What are they

"Haters Gonna Hate"

 

[Evlar]

So

What are they

Passkey to the WikiLeaks doomsday file.

 

[OriginalThinking]

Da Vinci Code?

Or "Replica copy?"

 

[Dennis]

OH GOD DAN BROWN WAS RIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

 

[Leunam]

So

What are they

Bible code, of course.

 

[SmokyDave]

Chill out, it's just my phone number.

 

[GDGF]

 

[jorma]

Well now we know what the next iteration of Assassins Creed will be about.

edit

:lol

 

[Ushojax]

EDIT: Beaten

 

[Dennis]

:lol :lol :lol

perfect pic

 

[Tntnnbltn]

they just found this out now..?

He said that while researching the model's identity he had been inspired by a 1960s book by a French art historian, which mentions the letters in her eyes.

- http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/mona-lisa-eyes-model-identity

Nope, apparently they found this out in the 1960s and then everyone forgot.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

i don't know anything about it but who would let the real thing be returned when they went through the effort of making realistic copies. in the very least i would have hidden it somewhere.

 

[Always-honest]

Monalisa-paintbynumbers.jpg

:lol :lol :lol so good.

 

[speculawyer]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[ChocolateCupcakes]

Everyone is so caught up with the mystery of the Mona Lisa when it could all just be an innocent painting and da Vinci was just trolling us.

 

[teruterubozu]

appear to be the letters CE or it could be the letter B

:lol Oh please.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Absolutely perfect. :lol

 

[John Dunbar]

Everyone is so caught up with the mystery of the Mona Lisa when it could all just be an innocent painting and da Vinci was just trolling us.

If it is an innocent painting, then Da Vinci wasn't trolling anyone, it's just a painting. However, if he was trolling us then the painting isn't innocent and the mystery is that it is a troll.

 

[Crisco]

Meh, patterns in clouds.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

L is real 2041.