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Extraordinary. So matching what’s left of the face of a woman buried over 400 years ago to see if she modelled for the Mona Lisa tells us…what, exactly? File under “so what?” and let her remains rest in peace. She was a life. She gave her face to a great painting during that life. The painting survives. She, in the nature of things, hasn’t. That’s it. Enough. Back off Silvano – if she haunts you to the end of your days it’ll serve you right.
Hear hear, GM. Coming from where I’m coming from on this. They’ll be digging people up to find out ‘if they were really as nice as people said they were’ next.
I’m with you both on this. Not even sure if you can accurately reconstruct what flesh on a face looks like based on bone structure formed by a skull. But even if you can, it’s no justification to exhume someone..
You can get pretty close, Richard, but regardless this is out of order.
While I genuinely have mixed views on the issue of the treatment of the ‘ancient dead’ and can usually see both sides of the argument, in this case I can see no redeeming features whatsoever.
Desperately seeking for something… anything, other than look at one’s self. More wine, Mona!