Review of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Eyes in his oil paintings
Mona Lisa: As Leonardo Da Vinci kept this version till his death, it would seem that this is a relative, perhaps a later version of his mother who he was taken from as a child. Her iris is brown as most people would have been in that era (and still are today!).
Apart from her facial features looking well vexed, Ginevra’s eye colouring is hazel. Less than 6% of the world’s population have hazel coloured iris.
The angels with their grey iris are synonymous with people originating in cooler regions of the world e.g Northern Europe. The frontispiece for ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring’, (historical fiction set in the Netherlands), novel is also painted with grey iris. Less than 5% of the world’s population have grey coloured iris.
The cropped paintings have been placed on former black umbrella fabric
