Mona Lisa enigma revealed

FOR centuries, the Mona Lisa has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning.

Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject’s famously missing eyebrows and lashes.

Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte said his ultra-detailed digital scans of the painting allowed him effectively to burrow through layers of paint to “see” into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci’s 16th-century portrait of a Florentine merchant’s wife.