Re: Churchill -- Man or Myth?

On May 6, 7:29=A0pm, "Richard R. Hershberger" <rrhe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

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> But was there ever any suggestion that she wasn't a real person: =A0that
> Leonardo painted her from his imagination? =A0

Not a real person, but an amazing simulation:

http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/link2.htm

[Leonardo da Vinci] recorded in his notebooks the records of model
sittings; but nowhere can be found any records of the Mona Lisa model
sitting. Why is that? Who posed for him? Dr. Lillian Schwartz of Bell
Labs suggests that Leonardo painted himself, and was able to sup****t
her theory by analyzing the facial features of Leonardo's face and
that of the famous painting, She digitized both the self-****trait of
the artist and the Mona Lisa. She flipped the self ****trait and merged
the two images together using a computer. She noticed the features of
the face aligned perfectly