Mona Lisa's Gender(s)

**UniqueStranger** · 10-22-2015, 07:40 PM

So, archaeologists exhumed the suspected remains of Mona Lisa. After carbon dating to confirm the time period, they will then attempt to reconstruct her face. Thus proving Mona Lisa was a woman.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/08...-the-smile

Update: So, it will take a few more years before we see DNA confirmation.

Reconstructing her face won't be possible due to there being no skull in the tomb (due to degradation via flooding).

But, there is documented proof that the person who posed for Leonardo was a woman.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...piece.html

**Coolchick** · 10-22-2015, 08:52 PM

it never occurred to me that mona lisa was not a woman..

did other ppl think it was a man or..?

i never heard that one..

**UniqueStranger** · 10-22-2015, 09:22 PM

Yes, it's an ongoing conspiracy discussion.

I think a song also contains the lyrics ... yep

**JayRodney** · 10-22-2015, 09:35 PM

Yeah I recall hearing it was Leonardo himself young and in drag or something. I never actually read that, it may have been a comment from a whack a doodle dandy that I've chosen to repeat.
That was kinda' the rumor.

**Coolchick** · 10-22-2015, 10:18 PM

(10-22-2015, 09:22 PM)UniqueStranger Wrote: Yes, it's an ongoing conspiracy discussion.

I think a song also contains the lyrics ... yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YZJWadCn8

oh!
i really hadnt heard that one.

odd.

**UniqueStranger** · 10-22-2015, 11:09 PM

(10-22-2015, 10:18 PM)Coolchick Wrote:
(10-22-2015, 09:22 PM)UniqueStranger Wrote: Yes, it's an ongoing conspiracy discussion.

I think a song also contains the lyrics ... yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YZJWadCn8

oh!
i really hadnt heard that one.

odd.

Yeah, the conspiracy is that the person posing as Mona Lisa was Leonardo's gay boyfriend in drag. I am sure there are other conspiracies, as the one JR mentioned. Anyway, archaeologists are trying to prove the poser was indeed a woman.

**UniqueStranger** · 10-23-2015, 12:03 AM

Here is another odd theory, that the Mona Lisa depicts both a man and a woman.

http://www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com/faq/mona-lisa.html

**Coolchick** · 10-23-2015, 12:27 AM

ever see this?
interesting stuff.

to see it, hold the cursor down and use it like magnifying glass

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-27/be...gs/5536130

**Octo** · 10-23-2015, 12:43 AM

Hey that's pretty cool

**JayRodney** · 10-23-2015, 12:45 AM

Wow, that's cool. Lol'd at the last one.

**Coolchick** · 10-23-2015, 12:46 AM

(10-23-2015, 12:45 AM)JayRodney Wrote: Wow, that's cool. Lol'd at the last one.

me too

i just put that pic in the other thread yesterday!

**JayRodney** · 10-23-2015, 01:07 AM

Yeah, I seem to recall monkey Jesus making a cameo about then.

**UniqueStranger** · 10-23-2015, 01:14 AM

(10-23-2015, 01:07 AM)JayRodney Wrote: Yeah, I seem to recall monkey Jesus making a cameo about then.

**Accidental Stoner** · 10-23-2015, 04:12 PM

Hmmyeah.

Wasn't it rather common in Leonardo's time,
to use male models in female roles?

**JayRodney** · 10-23-2015, 04:56 PM

It certainly was done in Shakespearean plays, but not sure about going back to Leonardo's time.