RAHSIA Potret yang tersembunyi di bawah Mona Lisa, tuntutan Ahli Sains PERANCIS . . .

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nUSANTARa - Seorang saintis Perancis mendakwa telah menemui potret lain di bawah kerja-kerja yang paling terkenal Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, selepas menganalisis dengan teknologi cahaya reflektif.

Pascal Cotte, yang telah membuat kajian lukisan yang terkenal selama lebih daripada 10 tahun, berkata penemuan beliau mendedahkan bahawa potret di bawah adalah salah satu wanita lain, BBC melaporkan pada hari Selasa.

"Keputusan menghancurkan banyak mitos-mitos dan mengubah visi karya Leonardo selama-lamanya," beliau dipetik sebagai berkata. "Apabila saya selesai pembinaan semula Lisa Gherardini [Mona Lisa], saya berada di hadapan potret dan dia sama sekali berbeza untuk Mona Lisa hari ini. Ini bukan wanita yang sama."

Para saintis, yang juga pengasas bersama Lumiere Teknologi di Paris, menggunakan teknik perintis yang dikenali sebagai Lapisan Amplification Kaedah (LAM) dalam menganalisis lukisan itu.

Analisis ini mendedahkan 2 gambar di bawah permukaan lukisan - potret dengan kepala yang lebih besar dan hidung, dan dengan tangan yang lebih besar tetapi bibir yang lebih kecil.

Cotte juga mendakwa telah menemui satu lagi imej gaya Madonna dengan etchings Leonardo daripada tengkolok mutiara.

Secret portrait hidden under Mona Lisa, 

French scientist claims . . .

A French scientist claims to have found another portrait underneath Leonardo da Vinci’s most celebrated work, the Mona Lisa, after analyzing it with reflective light technology.

Pascal Cotte, who has been studying the famous painting for more than 10 years, said his findings revealed that the portrait beneath is one of another woman, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

"The results shatter many myths and alter our vision of Leonardo's masterpiece forever,” he was quoted as saying. "When I finished the reconstruction of Lisa Gherardini [the Mona Lisa], I was in front of the portrait and she is totally different to the Mona Lisa today. This is not the same woman."

The scientist, who is also the co-founder of Lumiere Technology in Paris, used a pioneering technique called Layer Amplification Method (LAM) in analyzing the painting.

The analysis revealed two more images under the surface of the painting - a portrait with a larger head and nose, and with bigger hands but smaller lips.

Cotte also claims to have found another Madonna-style image with Leonardo's etchings of a pearl headdress.

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Menurut BBC, Louvre, yang menempatkan Mona Lisa, enggan mengulas kerana ahli sains bukan sebahagian daripada pasukan penyelidikan muzium. Cotte telah diberi akses untuk belajar lukisan itu pada tahun 2004 sebagai penyelidik bebas.

Sejarah seni Andrew Graham-Dixon, pengarang sebuah dokumentari BBC baru 'Rahsia Mona Lisa', yang mengumumkan ayat-ayat, berkata dia tidak ragu-ragu "ini adalah pasti salah satu cerita abad ini." Beliau juga mencadangkan berikutan penemuan nama lukisan itu mungkin perlu ditukar.

"Tidak mungkin akan ada beberapa keengganan di pihak pihak berkuasa di Louvre dalam mengubah tajuk lukisan itu kerana itulah yang kita sedang bercakap tentang - ia adalah 'selamat tinggal Mona Lisa, dia adalah orang lain," katanya.

Pada bulan Oktober 2007, Cotte juga mendakwa telah mendapati bahawa apabila da Vinci dicat Mona Lisa Perempuan itu mempunyai kening dan bulu mata. Beliau mencadangkan mereka hilang kerana pigmen pudar atau mungkin kerana satu percubaan yang buruk untuk membersihkan lukisan tahun selepas.

Lukisan ikonik telah dibuat oleh artis Renaissance Itali pada awal abad ke-16. Ia secara meluas dipercayai bahawa wanita itu da Vinci digambarkan adalah Lisa Gherardini, isteri Francesco del Giocondo, kain dan sutera saudagar yang kemudiannya menjadi seorang pegawai tempatan di Florence.

Walau bagaimanapun, sejarah lukisan itu telah penuh dengan krisis identiti, dengan beberapa ahli sejarah seni mencari persamaan antara wanita dalam lukisan dan potret sendiri Leonardo. Ia juga telah mencadangkan lukisan itu telah diilhamkan oleh pembantu pelukis lelaki, atau bahawa terdapat persamaan tertentu antara Mona Lisa dan lain-lain karya Leonardo "St. John Pembaptis."

According to the BBC, the Louvre, which houses the Mona Lisa, has declined to comment because the scientist is not part of the museum’s research team. Cotte was granted access to study the painting in 2004 as an independent researcher.

Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, the author of a new BBC documentary ‘The Secrets of the Mona Lisa’, which announced the revelations, says he doesn’t doubt “this is definitely one of the stories of the century.” He also suggested that following the discovery the name of the painting may have to be changed.

"There will probably be some reluctance on the part of the authorities at the Louvre in changing the title of the painting because that's what we're talking about - it's ‘goodbye Mona Lisa’, she is somebody else," he said.

In October 2007, Cotte also claimed to have discovered that when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa the woman had eyebrows and eyelashes. He suggested they disappeared because the pigment faded or possibly because of a poor attempt to clean the painting years after.

The iconic painting was made by the Italian Renaissance artist in the early 16th century. It is widely believed that the woman da Vinci depicted was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official in Florence.

However, the history of the painting has been riddled with an identity crisis, with some art historians finding similarities between the woman in the painting and self-portraits of Leonardo. It has also been suggested the painting was inspired by the painter’s male assistant, or that there are certain similarities between the Mona Lisa and Leonardo’s other masterpiece “St. John the Baptist.”

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