Secrets of the Mona Lisa Revealed: Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows

Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the Mona Lisa have been revealed by Pascal Cotte, a French art expert with a camera that can see through all the layers of paint.

Pascal Cotte said that due to the building up of the painting in layers, and the last being a special glaze to make the face appear 3-D, there were originally eyebrows painted on top of the glaze, which could be why the eyebrows are no longer there as they have rubbed off.

Using a 240 megapixel camera that can see light as to see through the top paint surface, and shows things like the fact that da Vinci repainted the position of a finger on her left hand to make the hand appear more relaxed. Pascal Cotte said that the painting of the Mona Lisa today looks totally different to what it did 500 years ago.

All the optical effects that da Vinci used to create the 3-D effect of the face have all disappeared according to Cotte. He also claims that for da Vinci the Mona Lisa was an effort to produce real life and was not just a painting.