Mona Lisa's Love child by Cliff Michaels

Text and photo originally uploaded by master photoshopping satirist Cliff MichaelsThis canvas, painted by a now forgotten student of Leonardo da Vinci in 1508, was recently unearthed from the basement of an ancient convent in Florence, Italy. It offers a tantalizing suggestion that the relationship between the titan of the Renaissance and the enigmatic woman was more than just painter and subject. Giorgio Vasari, the near contemporary biographer, also offers some justification for da Vinci's paternity, writing that da Vinci "immortalized her eyes in paint and flesh." (translation by E. Gromaldi)
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Philly fall foliage mural
A snippet from a photo of a brilliant mural of mother nature in the autumn. When Philly photographer, Fen Branklin, took it, was he also thinking it could be construed as a tribute to deforestation in his great city?




