Which led me to believe that the seemingly half-finished painting may have been a self-portrait of sorts.
The nose is almost similar to that seen in these other images:
But then, the nose is vastly different from that in this is image:
See how broad and round his nose becomes in the image of him as a haggard old man?
People use this in collaboration with the image of the Mona Lisa to suggest that the Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of him as a woman. Observe:
Before you wet yourself, please realize you can do the same mash-up with any two faces.
My question are numerous: What in the hell did Leonardo Da Vinci look like? He's one of the greatest artistic geniuses of all time, if not the single most-greatest. Every artist has himself as a subject. A self-portrait is as easy as looking in the mirror. With all of his works, why are there so few depicting himself? Possible answers are that he wasn't particularly vain, or disinterested in his own image. Still, with all his studies into anatomy, did he never think to draw more images of his own face? Did he actually use himself more often, and these images became mislabeled, were they destroyed or lost to time, or did he give them away to admirers or loved ones, or did he not use himself because his own image could be used to identify him to those he sought to escape? He kept a coded journal so that his words could not be used as an indictment against him, and he had to skip town on more than one occasion after deals went sour. Perhaps he planned to one day vanish altogether? All he would have to do is shave the beard and become invisible. A picture-perfect portrait of himself could be used to chase him down.
It's almost as if the over-the-top Assassin's Creed theories about him are real.
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