Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”as it currently appears, left, at the Louvre in Paris and, right, a digital computer-elaborated version of what the “Mona Lisa” would look like were it to be stripped of the multiple layers of yellow varnish, which have been added to the canvas through the centuries for protection. The Louvre’s art critic Jean-Pierre Cuzin told the Associated Press Friday August 28, 1998, that “it is absolutely out of the question to restore the Mona Lisa in any way”, while British art critic Alistair Laing told the ‘Journal des Arts’ that he thinks “the Louvre should consider removing the varnish, just as they have in other works”. (AP Photo/Reunion de Musees Nationaux di Parigi and Journal des Arts)
