Slow Start for Mona Lisa

One of the most famous paintings of all time is the Mona Lisa. Perfect poise and mysterious beauty are two phrases used to describe the woman in the painting. However, she has no eyebrows, it was the fashion in Florence, during the Renaissance to shave eyebrows off. The painting, which is so large in our minds and imaginations, is in reality less than 2 feet by 2 feet. Leonardo da Vinci takes so long (four years) to complete the painting that the Florentine merchant whom commissioned the portrait of his t...