If anyone has tried looking at the Mona Lisa up close, so that your gaze fills the entire screen...
Or lips... Then you froze in complete bewilderment...
Because it is impossible to find even a single trace, not even the tiniest one.
Furthermore, when researchers took an X-ray of the Mona Lisa, they also didn't see a single brushstroke, but they discovered something unimaginable: 30 thin layers of paint.
You can't even imagine how thin they are: 1 micrometer. For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is 80 micrometers!
It turned out there were spots, but each spot was one-fortieth of a millimeter long. Leonardo used a magnifying glass to create a network of these micro-strokes with a brush and then applied a layer of the thinnest paint.
And so on 30 times: a layer of strokes, a layer of paint.
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