The Fashionably Correct Mona Lisa

Did you know that when Leonardo DaVinci painted the Mona Lisa, he deliberately left out her eyebrows?

It was the fashion in Renaissance Italy for women to shave off their eyebrows. Women would also heavily paint their skin white, usually with bread flour. Sometimes blue veins were drawn on the neck and chest to make the skin seem fairer and transparent. In the late 16th century women would take belladonna, or deadly nightshade, which would dilate the pupils to make them seem more luminous.
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