Speculations about Mona Lisa he had had no access to the actual painting, said that after "every laboratory test possible" in 2004 and 2009 that "no inscriptions, letters or numbers, were discovered during the tests." and that "The ageing of the painting on wood has caused a great number of cracks to appear in the paint, which have caused a number of shapes to appear that have often been subject to over-interpretation". Speculations about Mona Lisa The 16th-century portrait Mona Lisa, or "La Gioconda" ("La Joconde"), painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci, has been the subject of a considerable
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (, "Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci", in literal translation) is the second novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published in 1900 by "Mir Bozhy" magazine, then released as a separate edition 1901. The novel constitutes the second part of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy (1895-1907), started by the writer's debut novel "The Death of the Gods". Merezhkovsky started working upon the second novel right after the first one, "The Death of Gods", was finished, submerging himself in studying the history of Renaissance. By this time he had the vision