Scientists Reveal Mona Lisa’s Secret Health Battle

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Public Domain Art and health experts have revealed that one of the world’s most famous faces may hold clues to a secret health struggle. Italian dermatologist Dr. Luigi Laino suggests that the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” masterpiece, Lisa del Giocondo—the child bride of a wealthy Florentine merchant—may have struggled with chronic hair loss, as signaled by the model’s unique features. “I propose that the most contemplated face in the history of art be recognized for what, clinically, it has always shown: a young woman with alopecia areata,” he wrote in an August study published…

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