Mona Lisa: Cyborg?

I'll admit that I am an utterly reprehensible knuckle-dragger when it comes to "fine art". So much so that the Louvre didn't even make it on the agenda when we were in Paris. The turtles humping in the zoo were far more interesting.

Which makes it all the more surprising that I find this guy's OCD obsession with the Mona Lisa so fascinating. Maybe it's just the sheer archaeological detective work going on here. Or maybe it's just the mix of new with old.

Probably that's it. If she were holding a batt'leth or had a prosthetic laser eye, I would have been lined up to see her with the rest of the mooks.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte says his ultra-detailed digital scans of the painting allow him to effectively burrow through layers of paint to "see" into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci's 16th-century portrait of a Florentine merchant's wife. The world's most famous painting originally included both brows and lashes, according to Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte, who says his 240-megapixel scans of the painting reveal traces of Mona Lisa's left brow, obliterated by long-ago restoration efforts.