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...exact identity is one of the great mysteries in the history of art. Now almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, Computer Artist Lillian Schwartz, a consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, has set off minor tremors in the art world by asserting that the model for Da Vinci's masterpiece was Leonardo himself. In the January issue of Art & Antiques, Schwartz explains that she used a new computer-model program to juxtapose the famous painting with Leonardo's only known self-portrait. Writes Schwartz: "The relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin, eyes and forehead...
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