Paul McDevitt
Wandering eyes
SHE has drawn admiring glances from all over the world, and is said to repay them in kind: visitors to the Louvre often claim Mona Lisa‘s gaze seems to follow them around the room. But science is here to show that this isn’t strictly true.
A study published in i-Perception recounts how volunteers looked at the famous painting straight on, then marked the direction of her gaze on a carpenter’s rule in front of them.
On average, 15.4 degrees to their right – in other words, just over…
