Madrid's Prado puts Mona Lisa's "twin" on display

Has developed the Prado museum in Madrid, a modern version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa on the screen just weeks after the swing in the art world with the revelation Prado provenance.The provided by the restoration of the completion of the work on Tuesday it had concluded was an exact replica plated and said Gabriel Finaldi , director of the Prado Museum to research and conservation, from one side of the trainees Leonardo as well as master of the Renaissance in workshop.This it is a copy of the oldest and most important of the famous painting known even now, years reporters.For copy, which detects and he thought a younger and brighter of the face which has thrilled audiences for centuries, to be one of dozens of replicas that after a long period of plate Leonardo death.The and belongs to the Prado since then has been the establishment of the museum in 1819 with art and royalty Spanish collection, but with a background started covered in black and the frame is believed to be oak, and many in the work of Northern Europe artists.Experts study of art from the Louvre copy when it requested two years ago to the exhibition opening next month. I found that it was drawn on a walnut, just like the Mona Lisa, and infrared images showed the effects of mountain background, as is the case in the restoration painting.When original and proceeded to remove the layer of varnish from the number in the drawing - which is believed to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a trader of Florence, Francesco del Giocondo - they revealed nuances important of her century, 16 and appearance.They stripped and then get out of black paint, revealing the landscape of fertile that provide important clues to the original by Leonardo, which is covered in layers of dirt and cracked varnish.While business assets Prado is not known, had arrived in Spain at the hands of the Italian sculptor Pompeo Leoni during one of the frequent trips between AC Milan and Real Madrid in the 16th century, or by someone in the Spanish nobility. Not found records to support either theory.The painting will be displayed in the Prado Museum until March 13, when travel to the Louvre in Paris to sit next to the original text for the establishment of a temporary exhibition.It Prado hopes the exhibition the Louvre, which will show many works from the studio of Leonardo, and we will provide more clues to any of the MBA students are responsible for the Paris painting.In will be able to explore more about who the author of this painting which was supposed to, and said Miguel Falomir, Secretary to the Italian Renaissance drawing at the Museum of Prado