For 500 years, people have been unable to agree on the mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa. Different viewers or at different times seem to feel different. I cleaned up the Mona Lisa. Why doesn't she have eyebrows?, Welcome to learn from.
Why doesn't Mona Lisa have eyebrows?
First, according to the social fashion at that time, the painter Da Vinci did not paint eyebrows for the Mona Lisa because women shaved off their eyebrows because of their wide forehead.
Second, people accidentally washed off their eyebrows when cleaning the painting in the early stage;
Third, the painting was the painting of Leonardo da Vinci himself. At that time, he was old, but the relevant people compared him with her head, which was very similar;
Fourth, because Da Vinci uses the halo painting method to express the corners of her eyes and mouth, and her whole facial structure is segmented according to the golden ratio (i.e. phi), adding eyebrows will destroy this aesthetic feeling and overall sense to a certain extent.
Why doesn't Mona Lisa have eyebrows?
Guess 1: the passage of time leads to the fading of eyebrows
Before the van Eck brothers reformed the oil painting materials and techniques, the European oil painting was actually an egg color painting, that is, the pigment was combined with the egg yolk with water to paint with this pigment. Egg color used in murals is called fresco, which is not easy to peel off, not easy to crack, bright color and maintain for a long time. But Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (1495-1497) ("oily egg paint" mural) faded about two or three years after completion.
Guess 2: This is the popular makeup of women in those years
It is said that it was because women at that time liked wide forehead and thin eyebrows. Said that Da Vinci shaved off his eyebrows and didn't draw eyebrows for the Mona Lisa, so as to highlight the wide forehead and add a sense of marble sculpture. Sister go thinks this explanation is much more reliable than the last one!
It can also be seen from Raphael Sansi's paintings that women's eyebrows are painted very thin.
The size, shape and color depth of different eyebrows can really reflect the popular aesthetics of a period.
The eyebrows of women in ancient China were also very learned. Thrush was born in the Warring States period and became more and more popular in the Han Dynasty. "Xijing miscellany" wrote: "Sima Xiang is like his wife and gentleman, and his eyebrow color is like a distant mountain. When people draw distant mountain eyebrows, it can be seen that women at this time are used to drawing eyebrows into long and curved shapes.
In the Tang Dynasty, eyebrow makeup swept away the situation of long eyebrows dominating the world. There have been various eyebrow shapes successively, which is an era with many eyebrow shapes in Chinese history and even world history. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there were ten forms of thrush: Mandarin Duck eyebrow, Hill eyebrow, five eyebrows, three peak eyebrow, hanging bead eyebrow, moon eyebrow, split tip eyebrow, Han smoke eyebrow, brush smoke eyebrow and inverted dizzy eyebrow.
Two eyebrows, so much art! No matter what era, women have never relaxed in the pursuit of fashion and beauty.