Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Is that Mona Lisa? Bones to be dug up for ID

Art historian and researcher Silvano Vinceti, silhouetted, gestures as an image showing the detail of the eyes of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting is projected in background during a February news conference in Rome. Italian researchers have announced a plan to dig up bones in a Florence convent in hopes of identifying the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the model for the Mona Lisa. Italian researchers said Tuesday they will dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the model for the "Mona Lisa."

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