Representation
of the Mona Lisa
in pigment-based colors
After more than 2,000 hours of work, Pascal COTTE is proud to present –
for the first time ever – the true colors of the Mona Lisa.
Based on totally scientific calculations (refer to publications), he has identified
the pigments used by Leonardo da Vinci. Then, using pigment maps obtained
further to the pictorial analysis of the multispectral files, he restored
the painting’s original colors, i.e. the way they used to look in the
days when Francis I bought the masterpiece.