French engineer Cotte used a device designed by himself to take a 240 mega pixel scanned image using 13 light spectrum including infrared and ultra violet, to get a clear picture about every layer of paint in the painting. This magnified the face of Mona Lisa 24 times. All this trouble to find more about eyebrows of the famous painting. It proved fruitful when he discovered a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow ! Proving Leonardo DaVinci orginally had eyebrows painted.
The device was developed under a project to develop the new generation multispectral digital camera. Project name is IST-project CRISATEL (Conservation Restoration Innovation Systems for image capture and digital Archiving to enhance Training, Education and life-long Learning). Tools with CRISATEL developments allow for paintings to be captured, electronically archived and restored, and printed for demonstration and exhibition purposes. Pascal Cotte is CRISATEL's project manager and president general manager at Lumiere Technology.
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