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[voluptuary_manque]

Might this be a MM or a Slash story?

 

[harding]

Oh my God! And Dan Brown missed this when he wrote the da Vinci Code?

I'll never believe another word that man writes... oh, yeah, of course, I don't anyway

 

[Stella_Omega]

Someone did a comparison and claimed they could prove the face was actually Da Vinci himself.

 

[3113]

Certainly explains the smile

 

[Stella_Omega]

Here's the real plot bunny: the character of the man who makes this claim!

Museum officials said Vinceti had made his claims without having had access to the painting itself.

The museum told AFP that it had carried out "every possible laboratory test possible" on the picture in 2004 and then again in 2009, and found "no inscriptions, letters or numbers."

"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," a Louvre spokesman said, according to, AFP.

Vinceti, whose team gained notoriety last year with their claims surrounding the death of Caravaggio, said he felt sorry for the embarrassment the museum must feel on having missed the clues all these years.

"I can understand their incredulity and amazement — after all this must be the most studied picture on earth," he told AFP, but added "they're really blind."

Now that-- amuses me.