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Artist Takes Four Years To Paint Mona Lisas Smile
Well four years is a long time but I saw a TV programme that suggested Da Vinci himself took even longer to get that smile right... perhaps decades!" Madcap artist John Williams has finished his painting of the...1,000 to be rescued from stranded cruise ship
Passengers aboard the stranded cruise ship Mona Lisa have been rescued. They were rescued off Latvia. " The Mona Lisa's captain had agreed to evacuate the ship after unsuccessful efforts to free it from a sand bank off Latvia's coast,...Artist paints tiny Mona Lisa a quarter the size of a postage stamp
"A Hampshire artist has painted the world's smallest Mona Lisa - and it's less than a quarter the size of a postage stamp. The tiny replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous painting is just 11mm high and seven millimetres wide."German experts crack Mona Lisa smile
"German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model...
'Mona Lisa' mystery solved
"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.
But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover,... Canada's Notorious Serial Killer's Trial Coming To A Close.
If ever a case for Capital Punishment, Wally PIckton deserves it many times over. I hesitate to comment further, as I do not believe the man deserves publicity in any form."t long last, the final stage begins in...
created by Barry Artiste | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Mona Lisa had eyebrows afterall - Revealed!
New images uncover 25 secrets about the Mona Lisa, including proof that Leonardo da Vinci gave her eyebrows, solving a long-held mystery.
The images are part of an exhibition, "Mona Lisa Secrets Revealed," which...
created by Leattle Pablo | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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864 views | 15 recommendations | 2 comments
Auto ID > Symbology > Biometrics > Photo Pattern Recognition :: Symblogogy
"What is Photo Pattern Recognition (PPR)? PPR is the ability to render a still photograph into an algorithm discernable identification symbol that then can be used for all of the cellphone applications that are...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Full-Scale Gordon Matta-Clark Retrospective Opens
NEW YORK.- The first full-scale retrospective in twenty years of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 22, 2007. Gordon Matta-Clark: âYou Are the Measureâ â which travels subsequently to the Museum of... Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
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Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
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Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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315 entries in... Mona Lisa Grave Found, Claims Scholar
"Jan. 19, 2007 — The woman behind Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting may be buried near a now derelict building in the heart of Florence, according to archival documents. The exact location of Mona Lisa's...Today in history - Dec. 12
"Today is Tuesday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2006. There are 19 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 12, 1906, the Senate confirmed Oscar Straus to be President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish member...Mona Lisa was a mom
"Mona Lisa had recently given birth to a baby, a team of Canadian and French scientists announced Tuesday, so her mysterious smile may have expressed the weary joy of a mother with a newborn. Using infrared...Scan Hints Mona Lisa Pregnant for Pose
" Maybe they should call it the "Mama Lisa." Researchers studying 3-D images of the "Mona Lisa" say she was probably either pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century...Scientists to Unveil Secrets of Mona Lisa
"Scientists are due to unveil some of the secrets behind Western art's most enigmatic smile this week, when they present the findings of the most extensive three dimensional scan ever undertaken on the Mona Lisa."
created by Victoria Revay | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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