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The largest ever Mona Lisa raised money for a charity

Vineet Chauhan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:05:22 +0000

Leonardo’s portrait of Mona Lisa, probably the most famous painting in the world, has been interested by the public for more than 500 years. Only a few paintings are so well known as Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and explaining her mysterious...

Artist paints Mona Lisa using burgers

Piyush — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:05:01 +0000

Artist Phil Hansen has a got a very peculiar way of painting. Peculiar as in? I mean, have you even seen someone paint a Mona Lisa using excess burger grease? That’s right – check him...

Learning Optics Mona Lisa way

Piyush — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:53:53 +0000

Good news for all high grade students, burning the midnight oil, to get the hang of fundamentals pertaining to optics, vision and image. Devorah Sperber, a New York artist has connected art, science and technology to address the way our...

Morphable Model of 3D Faces applied to Mona Lisa

Naveen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:03 +0000

Now, Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter of the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have come up with a neat morphable model for 3-D faces. The concept is that the system creates a master face amongst a string of two hundred source faces and then...

Mona Lisa Yacht: The name says it all!

Ritu — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:48:45 +0000

With a fleet of luxury yachts set to conquer the seas, 60-foot Mona Lisa is geared up to be the new entrant, recently exhibited for sale. She is a beauty with an ice-reinforced aluminum hull and can take you for long adventure filled...

Was Mona Lisa from humble origins?

Kanchan — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:17:43 +0000

Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile has won many admirers and aroused much mystery about the beautiful subject of the painting. The painting is owned by the French government, set in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Italian historian Giuseppe Pallanti...

Mona Lisa Portrait Made From Recycled Motherboards

Veronica — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:36:05 +0000

Recycled art is always good, and not just because its eco-friendly, but is always a great piece of art. But, if you are a hardcore geek who doesn’t gets bothered about the work of art and all then too, you are going to love this Mona Lisa...

The Da Vinci Code decoded

Vikas Shekhawat — Tue, 30 May 2006 04:12:12 +0000

You may consider it the most sought-after riddle of the century and would love to give in your life trying peeling the layers off it, but the Chinese hi-tech Leonardo da Vinci’s have cracked the mystery in their own unique way. The unique...

Technology smiling: Mona Lisa smiles the techno way

Charu — Sat, 27 May 2006 01:00:35 +0000

Here is yet another feast for all the Mona Lisa aficionados...but this one will find more of geek lovers as it is made exclusively out of computer parts. This piece of geeky creativity is christened with a very apt name: Technology Smiling. If...

Da Vinci code ad pulled down in Italy

Krish — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:42:03 +0000

Soon to be released and a possible blockbuster (after all its getting tons of free publicity any way for long) Da Vinci Code suffered another jolt (or gained more publicity) when the huge advertisement of it put up on Rome’s St. Pantaleo...