Scientists have proven that Mona Lisa did not follow people's eyes

Scientists explained that Mona Lisa was not really monitoring people / Living Joconde / youtube.com [19659005] The effect of Mona Lisa is a terrifying feeling that the eyes of the image are watching you. or that the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting does not really do it.

As Newsweek writes, the phenomenon occurs in cases where the hero of the picture directs his point of view "towards the camera". That is why the one who looks after the image seems if the eyes of the hero are constantly directed towards the viewer and that his position does not matter.

"One can not deny the effect itself, it is easy to demonstrate, but in the case of Mona Lisa, such an impression does not really appear", – explained the author of the study Dr. Sebastian Lot

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Researchers of the University of Bielefeld in Germany, has increased Da Vinci's image from 30% to 70% in increments of 10% and has finally left only his eyes and nose in the field of vision. "In general, researchers created 15 images of this image with varying magnifications." The researchers showed them to 24 volunteers. At the same time, the participants in the experiment asked where they were. The opinion of Mona Lisa seems to be.

The average volunteers said that Gioconda had an angle of 15.4 degrees.

"It is obvious that the term" effect of Mona Lisa "is false in his name, this is illustrated by the strong desire to make the object of the eyes of someone else, to be in the center of someone's attention, even if you do not know it at all, "said Dr. Gernot Horstmann, research associate of the department of psychology, specializing in the problems d & # 39; attention. that the viewer can always feel the appearance of the image if the character of the image looks "a little oblique".