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For many years, Italian researchers who solve art mysteries have now claimed that they have discovered who is the famous model in Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Silvano Vinceti is the chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage who said that Mona Lisa was actually a man and not a woman. He said that the model is in fact a male, named Salai who was an apprentice for Vinci. It is said that Salai worked with Vinci for 25 years and was his model and muse for various works of Vinci.

As per their claim and research there are many similarities between facial features of Salai as seen in other paintings of Vinci and the Mona Lisa.

Salai as John the Baptist

Salai - Vinci's apprentice for 25 years

Moreover, Silvano Vinceti also said that Salai and Vinci were actually lovers and shared an intimate relationship. Perhaps, Mona Lisa was made only because of Vinci's inspiration for Salai. The research team also went on to say that Vinci also drew the letters L and S in Mona Lisa's eyes that could stand for Leonardo and Salai.

Experts at Louvre museum in Paris where the actual painting is on display say these claims by the Italian experts are quite ridiculous as this team don't even have the access to that painting itself. So people should not fall for what they say.

Well you can see closely the pictures for comparison as these are some of the famous pictures in which Salai posed. Mona Lisa always looked haunting to me. And those eyes that keep following you every where are quite scary. I feel it could be quite true what the Italian researchers are saying. There is far too much resemblance in Mona Lisa and John the Baptist (in which Vinci used Salai) paintings.

“Miss September” wears stiletto heels as she strikes a pose for the Eizo X-ray pinup calendar.

It seems there is always someone thinking up new ways to shock us. This year’s pin-up calendar features X-rayed not X-rated girls. Yes, you heard me right. Bizarre but true. This 2010 pin-up calendar is the weird brain child of a German advertising agency called Butter. The idea was to promote Eizo’s high-precision displays for medical imaging so they used X-rays to shoot the pin-up models.
The Butter Agency declares that “pin-ups are more often found in auto garages rather than in medical offices.” I’ll say. “Eizo breaks this taboo,” Butter boasts. “This pinup calendar shows absolutely every detail.”

Their ad promotion made quite a splash on the Coloribus ad archive recently. Ever since these bizarre pin-up photos have been making their rounds on the Internet like the bizarre version of a Playboy centerfold.
Apparently, this calendar is a promotion only kind of thing and is not available as an actual calendar though certainly plenty of guys have tried to procure one. When several emailed the company: “Sorry, you can’t get it here. However, we appreciate the impact it has had on Eizo’s U.S. brand recognition,” the company wrote back.
What’s next? First we have skeletal thin fashion models because of eating disorders and the beauty world’s pressure to be too thin. Now we are gonna X-ray them too for display as pin-ups?

Miss January