One of the world’s most fiercely debated paintings just became even more mysterious. Artist Ron Piccirillo recently discovered “a secret that has been hiding for five hundred years” — three animal heads in the landscape of the Mona Lisa. Piccirillo claims to have figured out Leonardo da Vinci’s “secret vantage point” for viewing paintings, which revealed the ghost-like animal images.
See them for yourself. Here’s the original Mona Lisa:
And here are the hidden pictures. Clockwise: An ape, a lion, and a buffalo.
Piccirillo explains more of the mysteries behind the Mona Lisa and expands on the evidence behind his theories in a recent post on his site, The Hidden Horse Head.