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The fictional Robert Langdon cracked the equally fictional Da Vinci Code by discovering clues hidden within the Mona Lisa. But it's a French florida luxury car rental scientist and art researcher, Pascal Cotte, who has uncovered the real secrets of one of the world's most famous portraits. His amazing work is revealed in a walk through " Da Vinci The Genius ," an exhibition featured at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas .
In a darkened gallery, panels reveal Cotte's discoveries about the masterpiece, painted not on canvas but on a plank of poplar. Visitors can go face-to-face with a highly detailed replica of the masterpiece, observing a crack in the wood on the painting's face and a butterfly splint, applied ages ago to the reverse side to prevent a bigger florida luxury car rental split.
The Louvre granted florida luxury car rental Cotte unprecedented access to the Mona Lisa. He spent several hours with her in a laboratory at the art museum capturing digital images with his own creation: a 240,000,000-pixel camera that captures a whopping 4,000 pixels per square millimeter.
Da Vinci began working on the piece in 1503 and continued making revisions and touch-ups for the next 12 years. florida luxury car rental Cotte's work uncovered that the artist applied more than 150 layers of paint to the Mona Lisa.
The 16th century plans for a bicycle part of the exhibit may not be Da Vinci's work, Cotte said. The Parisian discovered that the person who made those sketches was right-handed. Da Vinci was left-handed.