From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:37:47 -0700, Snidely    
   wrote:   
   >Les Albert pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   >> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:28:37 -0400, Xho Jingleheimerschmidt   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 8/11/22 12:36, Les Albert wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:14:13 -0700 (PDT), "artyw2@yahoo.com"   
   >>>>  wrote:   
      
   >>>>> Was Mona Lisa considered hot when Da Vinci painted her?   
      
   >>>> Maybe. It is said to be a painting of Lisa Gherardini, but nobody   
   >>>> knows for sure.  And I read somewhere that the enigmatic smile is   
   >>>> actually showing a swelling of the face due to an abscessed tooth.   
   >>>> Others have said Mona Lisa's mysterious smile was caused by an   
   >>>> under-active thyroid gland.  Hypothyroidism can cause swollen hands,   
   >>>> thinning hair and a lump in the neck, all visible in the portrait,   
   >>>> according to researchers.   
      
   >>> I've also heard speculation, I don't know how serious, that it was a   
   >>> self-portrait of Leonard as if he had had an innie rather than an outie.   
   >>> Xho   
      
   >> Who is Leonard?   
      
   >That kid from Vinci, isn't it?   
      
   Here's an interesting factoid for this art salon:   
   "In his own time he was known just as Leonardo or as 'Il Florentine'   
   since he lived near Florence—and was famed as an artist, inventor and   
   thinker.". - History.com   
      
   Les   
      
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