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“Mona Lisa Smile” Immortalized Riddle
(Puzzles Between Artist and Art)

Contributing Author: Great Augusta

The hidden truth that eludes to decipher the enigma of the Mona Lisa painting has been creating a kind of puzzle that entangles the mind-art observant people around the world ever since this masterpiece in canvas was created by Italy’s renaissance painter, architect, engineer, sculptor, scientist, and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci.

The Mona Lisa art mastery is just one of the dream-subject that ironically never reached his slightest idea it would rise to the levels of immortalized popularity. The transcendent-genius, Leonardo da Vinci’s effortless way to conceptualize every aspect of knowledge from being an ingenuous art-gifted individual to a highly developed learned person, and privileged to have attended the best educational environments of Florence, Italy were proven in his continuity or consistency in observing, recording his thoughts, improving, and discovering beyond the earth’s atmosphere of celestial light and its reflection effects around the environment.

Applications in learning about his numerous crafts written in several thought records of his ingenuity, thru inventions, experiments, recaptured flow of his thoughts in the Codex Leicester version “A Masterpiece of Science” organized by big authorities as Dean, Curators, Scientists, Directors, all departmental offices as; Departments of Anthropology, Invertebrates, Earth and Planetary Sciences of the “American Museum of Natural History” General interest with tremendous concern about the Mona Lisa mystical essence lies relevantly that Leonardo himself aside from being a seasoned painter was skilled in many other branch of learning in science, hydrodynamics, mingling of light that associates to atmospheric modes depicted in applications of his color and shade, in relation to light reflected from the earth’s oceans, shadows created by the clouds, celestial lights, and moon’s reflections from our planet’s water basin as it (earth) revolves around the sun.

Attributing frame of thoughts that premised links to the best formal educational training his time could offer, he kept abridged to broaden art techniques, and applying at par-finish excellence art styles and techniques using the (1) Sfumato: a subtle combination in color areas that results to kind of infinitesimal atmospheric haze and cloudy effect, and the (2) Chiaroscuro: , defining modeling forms thru contrast of light and shadow, shown during hands-on, sensitive or delicate form as hands of the model portrayed with luminous modulation of light and shade while sparingly distributing color contrast.

All these were perpetual credits to his superior painting talent coupled with knowledge in science, and other brainy inventions during the Italian Renaissance. As a great thinker, he envisions revolutionary future events making de Vinci to speculate his objectives and purpose, transcending beyond time towards man’s scientific realizations. These were characterized by the truth he anticipated discoveries of industrial machines for the modern times. He went thru hydrodynamics experiments relating to properties in fluid as density, compressibility, water surface and adhesion, and the fact that water pressure increases with depth.

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