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Mona Lisa

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NASA Uses a Laser to Sends the Mona Lisa to the Moon Because SCIENCE!

by Susana Polo | 4:34 pm, January 18th, 2013

No, Dean from The Iron Giant. Not because, ART, because SCIENCE. NASA recently tested out a system of transmitting data by laser beam to their satellite currently orbiting the Moon, an experiment that gathered vital information on the interference of Earth’s atmosphere and its effect on the fidelity of such communications. But they couldn’t just send any old thing to the moon, no. They sent the Mona Lisa. Explanatory video below:

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Our Adorable Past

Meet the Isleworth Mona Lisa, Which Might be the Mona Lisa’s Senior by Ten Years

by Susana Polo | 2:01 pm, September 27th, 2012

The lady is familiar, but not the facial expression. For years art historians have pondered the origins of the Isleworth Mona Lisa. Is it a copy, painted shortly after da Vinci finished his mysterious masterpiece, or an early draft of the famous portrait, painted ten years previously?

The debate begins anew, with the unveiling of the painting to the public eye for the first time in forty years.

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Our Adorable Past

World Still Safe from Zombie Mona Lisa [They Dug Up the Wrong Body]

by Rebecca Pahle | 1:57 pm, September 17th, 2012

Attention, art history fans: Mona Lisa’s skeleton has not been found. Or, rather, the skeleton recently exhumed by art historian/researcher Silvano Vinceti, thought to have belonged to Mona Lisa model Lisa del Giocondo, in fact belonged to a different long-term resident of the Ursuline convent that is supposedly the final resting place of Leonardo da Vinci‘s muse.

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