20 years ago, today, the world got just a little bit prettier. You're welcome, world.
Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.
There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.
It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish.
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The birds know..
I’m convinced that while everything about the Joker- his murderous instincts, his maniacal laughter, his maddening behaviour- points to him being insane, he is the farthest thing from it. The Jokers greatest prank has been to pull the wool over society’s eyes all these years, masquerading as a madman so as to be thrown into an asylum and treated with kid gloves when apprehended, to be ‘rehabilitated’ rather than punished in a penitentiary. It’s a strategy worthy of a high-stakes player, so it’s apt that he’d be named for a playing card
On June 3, 1965, Edward Higgins White II became the first America to venture out on a spacewalk as part of NASA's Gemini 4 mission.
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