And how are the colors? Is piicture in post 7 the colors of the face or is that picture (composite from several stills from a video) too much reddish? Or is the face like in post 1 more yellowish?
In some website I read that the 666 if from the first inventory on the Museum that took place in 1666. I wonder if they were placing the digits on the pictures with each inventory…
Why would Leonardo arrange to have a copy made simultaneously with the original? An explanation might be found in the article, “Leonardo’s Val di Chiana Map in the Mona Lisa”, in the peer-reviewed journal, Cartographica, 46:3, 2011, available at http://digital.utpjournals.com/issue/43517/7 . The article explains that two copies can be arranged side-by-side and aligned so that the image on one copy is seen to continue on the other copy. The newly reconstituted landscape matches an actual place, namely the Val di Chiana, as mapped by Leonardo. Two such juxtaposed copies also form a stereoscopic arrangement which is an example of what Leonardo described in his Notebooks under “Differences of perception by one eye and by both eyes”. This is part of his investigation of stereopsis.