Intrigue is usually focused on her enigmatic smile. But the Mona Lisa was at the centre of a new mystery yesterday after art detectives took a fresh look at the masterpiece – and noticed something in her eyes. Hidden in the dark paint of her pupils are tiny letters and numbers, placed there by the artist Leonardo da Vinci and revealed only now thanks to high-magnification techniques.
大师达芬奇最经典的传世作品《蒙娜丽莎》永远被后人津津乐道，并被誉为油画史上的旷世杰作，这幅画还被作家丹·布朗用来做题材，成就了小说《达芬奇密码》并被翻拍为卖座的好莱坞同名电影。据悉，作家丹·布朗的“先见之明”在最近一次对油画《蒙娜丽莎》的研究中得到证实，科学家经过高科技手段“侦查”发现，油画蒙娜丽莎“瞳孔”中“有重大玄机”，瞳孔内竟然出现微型的字母和数字！
Experts say the barely distinguishable letters and numbers represent something of a real-life Da Vinci code. The revelation could have come straight from the pages of Dan Brown’s best-seller The Da Vinci Code, in which the Mona Lisa is said to contain hidden clues about the Holy Grail. Silvano Vinceti, president of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, which spotted the symbols, said: ‘To the naked eye the symbols are not visible but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen.
专家怀疑，在油画人物瞳孔里出现的字母和数字恐怕是大使达芬奇故意在作品中“藏匿”的密码。这不又让人想起丹·布朗在畅销小说《达芬奇密码》中隐喻的圣杯情节。意大利国家文化遗产保护委员会专家Silvano Vinceti说：“用肉眼很难发现在蒙娜丽莎眼中的符号，但是这个符号逃不过高科技仪器的法眼。”
‘In the right eye appear to be the letters LV which could well stand for his name, Leonardo da Vinci, while in the left eye there are also symbols but they are not as defined.‘It is very difficult to make them out clearly but they appear to be the letters CE, or it could be the letter B.
专家分析，蒙娜丽莎瞳孔中出现的字母有可能为LV,也就是达芬奇大师本人的名字缩写，也有可能是字母CE或者字母B等。据悉，专家还没对字母符号做出最终的评判。
Mr Vinceti added: ‘Da Vinci put a special emphasis on the Mona Lisa and we know that in the last years of his life he took the painting with him everywhere.'We also know that da Vinci was very esoteric and used symbols in his work to give out messages.‘Who knows, they may even possibly be a love message to the figure in the painting.’Mr Vinceti is a member of a group which is seeking permission to exhume da Vinci’s remains from his tomb at Amboise Castle in France’s Loire Valley.They want to see if the artist’s skull is there so that they can try and recreate his face and establish if the Mona Lisa – owned by the French government and on display in The Louvre – is in fact a twist on a self-portrait of the artist as some believe.
有专家肯定了油画《蒙娜丽莎》对于达芬奇的重要性，并称大师达芬奇在晚年生活中将作品随身携带，片刻不离。据悉，大师达芬奇一生都十分喜爱在自己的作品中放入所谓的“密码”或者说是他独特的标记，企图向人传达特定的含义。或许，达芬奇本人用油画向心上人传递爱的信号呢，也或许，蒙娜丽莎本身就是达芬奇的自画像。不可思议的是，有团队企图将达芬奇在法国的墓地掘开，并获得达芬奇的头骨，他们的目的是想通过达芬奇的头骨还原达芬奇的本人真实面貌，并看看达芬奇和蒙娜丽莎之间有无联系。 |
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