MONA LISA'S SMILE.
DUE TO GEOMETRIC TRICK.
The secret of Mona List's haunting, enigmatic smile, which has puzzled art critics for years, is explained by I)r. Maurice Goldblatt, an art authority, who says that the expression is due toa geometric trick of Leonardo da Vinci, the painter. The Florentine, famed as a mathematician and an engineer as well as an artist, tilted the lips of the Mona Lisa on the arc of a circle, the ends of which just touch the outer corners of the eyes. . ' . The arc of another circle iorms the outline of the head, and the second circle is exactly twice the diameter of the first. According to Dr. Goldblatt, the circles cause the eyea to focus on the lips and make them the outstanding portions of the painting. The geometrical pattern not only is in evidence 111 tile Mtfna Lisa, but in others of Da Vinci's works, particularly the "Virgin of the Rocks," where the formation of the face by circles again holds true.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)
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