Ken’s Korner: An earlier version of the Mona Lisa?
Ken’s Korner
News & Views from the World of Antiques & Collectibles
By Ken Hall
Did Leonardo Da Vinci paint an earlier version of his masterpiece the Mona Lisa a dozen or so years before the famous painting that hangs in the Louvre? That’s what the Mona Lisa Foundation is out to prove, using regression tests, mathematical comparisons and historical and archival records in a 35-year comparative analysis to another, similar work, known as the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” (so named because it turned up in the home of an English nobleman in the late 1800s). The Foundation is headquartered in Zurich.

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