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Just read this on Perez. I'm fascinated.

Apparently, Members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage have been taking a closer look at Da Vinci's masterpiece, The Mona Lisa, and they've been finding letter and numbers under paint. The characters can only be seen by magnifying high resolution images of the painting.

Tough work.

Sounds like something out of Dan Brown's novels, no?


Perez blogs:

Italian researcher Silvan Vinceti say's he's found a letter "S" in Mona Lisa's left eye, and an "L" in her right eye. He also says he's found a number "72" under the "arched bridge in the backdrop" of the painting.

According to Vinceti, the symbols he found are "very small, painted with a tiny brush and subjected to the wear and tear of time."

So what do these symbols mean?

Vinceti believes the "S" could refer to the woman who ruled Milan during the Sforza dynasty, where Leonardo da Vinci spent time between 1482-1499 and 1506-1507.

As far as the "L" is concerned, Vinceti says it stands for "Leonardo."

With regards to "72," Vinceti claims it's a pertinent symbol from Kabbalah and Christianity. He says the "7" has lots of symbolic associations such as creation of the world, and he says the "2" could refer to the duality of male and female.

Read the entire article here.

CRAZY.

I love that kind of stuff.

But aren't there already enough hidden meanings (or speculations of hidden meanings) behind Mona Lisa already though? Like it's Da Vinci's cross-dressed self portrait?

I'm not sure. Either way, Da Vinci might have been an amazing person to interview.