| Remarkable coincidences can and do occur completely by accident especially when two artists separated in time work from a common underlying philosophy. Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington (here shown reversed) share an uncanny resemblance to one another above and beyond the fact that they are identically positioned and share identical facial proportions. Perhaps the similarity is pure chance, perhaps it’s the result of one artist using the other’s work as his model, or perhaps it is a hidden reference to a shared belief in a longstanding tradition of sacred wisdom. |
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