{"id":9777,"date":"2019-05-05T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2019-05-05T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T02:07:22","slug":"mona-lisa-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/05\/mona-lisa-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Lisa Fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo da Vinci never finished the Mona Lisa because he injured his arm while fainting, experts say<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by  Henry Bodkin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The chalk drawing of da Vinci by\u00a0Giovan Ambrogio Finio has offered new clues\u00a0CREDIT:\u00a0POLO MUSEALE DEL VENETO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo da Vinci left the Mona Lisa unfinished because he gravely injured his arm while fainting, a new study argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cause of the renaissance artist\u2019s disability has been debated by art historians for centuries, and in recent years partial paralysis as a result of a stroke has emerged as the dominant theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have pointed to da Vinic\u2019s vegetarianism as a clue, arguing that the high-dairy diet he is assumed to have eaten would have made a stroke more likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, two senior Italian doctors now claim to have solved the mystery, having studied a drawing of da Vinci by an obscure Lombard artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blood-red chalk picture by Giovan Ambrogio Finio depicts an elderly da Vinci with his lower right arm at right-angles to his body, swaddled in folds of his clothes as if in a sling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His thumb, first and second figures are extended, with his fourth and fifth fingers are contracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Davide Lazzeri, a plastic surgeon, and Dr Carlo Rossi, a neurologist, argue that if da Vinci had indeed suffered a stroke, it is far more likely his entire fist would have been clenched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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