The Magical Gaze of 'Mona Lisa' Is a Myth.

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Her gaze is not following you, scientists find, making the "Mona Lisa effect" a misnomer.
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▼ It's common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room.
But this common knowledge, it turns out, is wrong. The eyes of the woman in the "Mona Lisa" don't follow viewers.undefined
A new study finds that the woman in the famed painting is actually looking out at an angle that's 15.4 degrees off to the observer's right — well outside of the range that people normally perceive when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said study author Gernot Horstmann, a perceptual psychologist at Bielefeld University in Germany, "She's not looking at you."
The misnamed "Mona Lisa effect"
This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person's gaze in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the "Mona Lisa effect." That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person's gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa  effectoccurs.

Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" draws a crowd at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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soothsayer

Well. it is what we want to see or how we want to be seen which matters!

ssangra

soothsayer 11-1-2019 12:46 PM
Well. it is what we want to see or how we want to be seen which matters!

Its still amazing that he painted it that way....some interesting dope on his paintings is available on the following links for the interested....1) 5 mysteries in his paintings - https://brightside.me/creativity ... s-paintings-428310/

2) Details of some codes and symbols in his paintings - https://www.matrixdisclosure.com ... us-codes-mysteries/
3) How his paintings show hidden aliens -
               https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news ... St-John-The-Baptist
               https://www.disclose.tv/extrater ... is-paintings-312699
4) Mystery over the orb in one of his famous paintings - https://www.theguardian.com/arta ... ator-mundi-painting

soothsayer

Thanks for the info. I will go through the stuff. Sounds interesting.

Arunita

I haven't seen the original one. But I have never experienced that hyped 'magical gaze' of Mona Lisa from the pictures. It has always been one of my disappointments. Hence, thanks for sharing the post. It made my day.

dushazmi

People spread lies everywhere, inbuilt human nature.

Srinivas1939

Several of the paintings of Raja Ravi Verma depicting characters from Hindu mythology are reputed to carry a similar effect, the gaze following one everywhere. The explanation that the phenomenon is common to paintings and photos is interesting.