Reading earlier that a French scientist says theres another portrait beneath the Mona Lisa.

The hidden portrait is of a woman but she is looking side on, then It was changed to become the famous Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda as it's also called. The painting and its gaze has caused debate for over 500 years.


So my question is, what hides behind your mysterious gaze

And please, this is a serious topic

What is hidden behind Mona Lisa's gaze is revealed in . . .

My mysterious gaze?
The light and beauty that is me

As for Mona Lisa, think I heard about that years ago as well. I guess Leonardo didn't want to waste a canvas?
I have done a similar thing myself in the past, haha. And you do not want to know what is underneath the landscape that is on it now
Some things are better left unknown

Some are saying it's just how he started the actual painting and it just looks like there's one beneath. So again it becomes mysterious.

As for myself, I don't have a mysterious gaze, I'm just an old poker faced moaning git.

I was rather surprised when the Mona Lisa was actually brought to Atlanta for the Olympics. I went to see it, and the other great works, I remember feeling like I was seeing two auras from the painting; and wondering why.

I know artists often change paintings on canvases but it feels strange to have the ghost behind the face. I tend to believe once a person's essence is committed to a canvas part of it remains. It is such a thin veil it is hard to perceive if you don't really meditate on it.

I know I am very uncomfortable when I visit a neighbor who frantically keeps painting and repainting his works. It has a very chaotic feel and I have often wondered if that is what makes him such a disquieted person.

I often get that "vibe" when I am around a twin; especially if their twin is not around. I think the whole concept of separating twins is bogus because it seems to cause them such stress. They don't necessary conjoin in there thinking or actions but parallel more comfortably. Like young children that tend to not interact but seem quite satisfied to have another child in their space as long as it does not greatly deprive their needs. Then competition starts.

I wonder if some kind of MRI photograph/scan of the chemical layers of the painting could separate the two kind of like a three dimensional printer constructs things in micro layers with out destroying either. My science understanding is vague and only conceptual. It would seem like the different pigment micro signatures would be able to be separated if we can get down to seeing cell structures.

If I told you, then it wouldn't be a "mysterious" gaze anymore.

It would just be staring, or leering, or "standing around with a stupid look on your face" and I'd be told to stop that.

So...seems it would behoove me to maintain the mystery.

Thanks Thomas, staring and leering, so that's why I get peculiar looks off the Ladies

Sorry Leonardo!

This guy at the London Olympics opening ceremony, hilarious.

Yep,AKA Mister Bean!

Eyes Of A Stranger - Queensrÿche

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-QbzRyMIE

NAT KING COLE - MONA LISA





Mona Lisa" is a song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950). It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1950. The arrangement was by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra. The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent eight weeks at number one in the Billboard singles chart in 1950. Also, Cole's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. The Billboard sales charts of 1950 also showed significant sales on versions by Dennis Day and Harry James. In 1986, it was used as the theme to the British film Mona Lisa. An uncredited version of Mona Lisa plays in the background of one scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). The song was used in the wedding scene of the NBC mini-series, Witness to the Mob, in 1998.

Various artists, including Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Art Lund, Shakin' Stevens, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, the Neville Brothers, and Nat King Cole's daughter Natalie Cole, have released cover versions of this song. Bruddah Iz (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole) also covered the song on the album Alone in IZ World. Harry Connick, Jr. included the song on his 2009 album, Your Songs.

That actually was really common back then as it is today painting over a painting.

I guess I would have to know that I have a mysterious gaze first.
I think I am just me inside and out..

Mine would be my evil eyes and thinking you best not get in my personal space and try to rob me.

I see you!

That's perfect! He's hilarious!