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Now, armed with a catalogue of evidence to support his theory, the Queen's University professor has identified three Renaissance-era poems that he believes inspired Leonardo da Vinci as the famed artist painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s. Kilpatrick's findings are published in an Italian journal.
Kilpatrick said Leonardo used a technique called "invention" to incorporate images inspired by one sonnet written by the Roman poet Horace and two by Florentine poet Petrarch.
"The Mona Lisa is a portrait but even portraits can tell stories," Kilpatrick, a classics professor emeritus, told CTV.ca. "I think it's more than a portrait. Along the way I think greater things possibly came to (Leonardo's) mind."
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