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what is the mystery behind mona lisa painting
One long-standing mystery of the painting is why Mona Lisa features very faint eyebrows and apparently does not have any eyelashes.
was the mona lisa eyebrown and eyelash mystery solved?
Pascal Cotte, a French engineer and inventor, says he discovered with a high-definition camera that Leonardo da Vinci originally did paint eyebrows and eyelashes on The Mona Lisa.
how was the mona lisa eyebrown and eyelash mystery solved?
Creating an ultra-high resolution close-up that magnified Mona Lisa's face 24 times, Cotte says he found a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left eye.
were there any other mysteries surrounding the mona lisa painting besides the eyebrown and eyelash mystery?
It has for a long time been argued that after Leonardo's death The Mona Lisa was cut down by having part of the panel at both sides removed.

Question: who was the artist of the painting?
Self-contained rewrite: who was the artist of the mona lisa painting?