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Louvre's Mona Lisa may be copy of an 'earlier version'

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News : ReadingA Swiss art foundation claims it has proof that an “earlier” version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa masterpiece at the Louvre is a genuine painting by the Italian master.

New analyses included an examination of “sacred geometry” as well as carbon dating and pigmentation tests carried out after the so-called “Isleworth Mona Lisa” was unveiled in Switzerland in September 2012.

“I am 100 percent convinced that this is a genuine Leonardo,” foundation vice-president David Feldman

Isleworth version, named after a London suburb where it was kept until 1913, was that it bore the hallmarks of a 17th or 18th century work and was therefore a copy made well after the original.


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“The Louvre version is far more advanced and of far higher quality, but it is a copy made by Leonardo himself from the earlier one.”

As well as carbon dating, Italian geometrist Alfonso Rubino studied the Isleworth version against Leonardo’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ and concluded that the geometry of the Swiss Mona Lisa was the same as the Italian master’s.

Documents show that Florentine nobleman Francesco del Giacondo commissioned Leonardo to paint a picture of his wife Lisa in the early 16th century.

Feldman believes that the Swiss painting was probably left unfinished before Leonardo painted the second version that now hangs in the Louvre.


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