We have bamboo in our backyard and it is really pretty when it snows.

It looks like a sail that you’d rig to a catamaran or windsurf board

that would be amazing for celebrities to wear to ward of unwanted paparazzi

Beautiful bonsai, I’d love to just sit and stare at it

Saturn is mooning us.

* insert darth vader noise*

Thinks of all the seawater she’s accidentally swallowed over the years….

I would love to live there

I'm glad I don't have repaint this.

Brrrrrrr.

They are perfect

This bugs me it looks like an octopus put it’s arms all over it.

115 meters.

I thought it was the Grand Canyon at first

Genius! More places should do this.

To be honest, it looks like a giant grape.

that would be an interesting / frustrating jigsaw puzzle photo

Imagine being his apprentice and having to copy his work!

Amazing to see the actual colours. I'd always assumed that the picture had always been... well, drab.

It is not preserved. it is restored Although there are dozens of surviving copies of the Mona Lisa from the 16th and 17th centuries,[3] the Prado's Mona Lisa may have been painted simultaneously by a student of Leonardo in the same studio where he painted his own Mona Lisa,[4] so it is said to be the copy with the most historical value.[5] Among the pupils of Leonardo, Salaì or Francesco Melzi are the most plausible authors of the Prado's version, though other experts argue that the painting could have been executed by one of Leonardo's Spanish student

Previous to its restoration, the painting was catalogued as an anonymous copy from the first quarter of the 16th century. However, it usually hung in the Prado alongside masterpieces of Italian artists such as Raphael or Andrea del Sarto. A lithograph of the painting also exists,[9] which is unusual for an anonymous copy. Although there were elements that clearly distinguished the copy from the Louvre's version, the most striking point was the fact that until the restoration of the Prado's version, no landscape background was visible. That landscape was fully recovered through the restoration carried out by the Prado between 2011 and 2012,[10] for a request to include the Prado's work in a temporary exhibition in the Louvre called Leonardo's last masterpiece: The Sainte Anne, from 29 March to 25 June 2012.[11] The oxidized varnishes indicated that the black repaint had been made 200 years after the copy was painted, that is to say, not before 1750.[12] During this restoration process,

Restored, not preserved. The Mona Lisa is covered in dirty varnish that has yellowed over time, and is believed too delicate to restore. The apprentice's painting has been restored - the yellowed varnish has been removed and a new archival (and fully reversible) varnish has been added, showing the original colours of the paint. If curious about the process involved in fine art restoration, Baumgartner Restoration on youtube does documentaries of the process.

I stumbled across this by accident in Madrid at the Prado just when I was about to leave.

That translucent shawl is amazing!😍

I find that the apprentice is better than the master.

It's like a before and after, assistant's model in her 20s and Da Vinci's in her 40s.

she's much prettier in the one done by the apprentice

She has eyebrows!!

Subtle differences, colors not withstanding, shows why Da Vinci was the Master. . .

The left one has a different look in her eyes, like she's thinking: "Why does she get all the attention?"

interesting that the face is just slightly different? wonder which is closer?

I like Da Vinci's better.