Mona Lisa Restored

In Production

A digital restoration project removing the optical effect of five hundred years of yellowed varnish from Leonardo’s most studied painting. Comparison galleries, the multi-layer reconstruction, and the print release are being prepared for launch.

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What this project will show

The Louvre Mona Lisa is overlaid with centuries of accumulated varnish, dust, and conservation residue that have shifted the painting’s palette toward yellow and brown. Modern multispectral and infrared imaging let us model the optical effect of those layers and digitally reverse them — revealing the cooler atmospheric tones, the original flesh palette, and the depth of the landscape as Leonardo built it.

This is a research-led restoration: every reconstructed pigment is documented, every confidence level is published, and the reasoning is open to scrutiny. The full project will pair the digital restoration with the layered-reality and stereoscopic pair research already published on this site.

Comparison

Side-by-side sliders for face, hands, fabric, landscape, and full image, with documented reasoning.

Layer Reconstruction

Up to thirty translucent glaze layers in the face, modelled and separated through sfumato analysis.

Print Release

Museum-quality archival prints of the restoration, with companion technical notes.