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MOSCOW, December 8 – RIA Novosti. To speak objectively about the “sensational discovery” of the French scientist Pascal Cotte, who investigated the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, it will be possible only if its assessment of its investigations will Louvre , the president of the State Museum of Fine Arts (GMII) named after AS Pushkin Irina Antonova.
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Earlier, the British broadcaster BBC reported that the French scientist, founder of Lumiere Technology Pascal Cotte with a unique multispectral cameras and scanning over a decade researched the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci. Conducted by researchers reconstruction shows that the original picture is somewhat different from the final version – it model looks away, and she does not have the famous direct gaze and an enigmatic smile on the canvas, which is located in the Louvre.
“There is nothing surprising that Leonardo has changed the original version of the portrait – the direction of gaze, a smile – no, artists often change something in the process, if it is, of course, true. In any case, talking about the sensational discovery, we can only when their evaluation of discoveries give the Louvre “- told RIA Novosti, Irina Antonova.
In the Louvre, where exposed” Mona Lisa “, the opening Cotta declined to comment because the scientist is not in their” scientific team “, reported the BBC.
Cott previously also held the spectral analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine”, and found that in the original version of the picture stoat absent, then the animal had a gray color and only in the final version became white.
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