Where It Begins
The Investigation
It begins with the Mona Lisa and opens outward into the questions and evidence gathered across five centuries.
One Enquiry, Many Threads
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Fine Art Detective begins with a deceptively simple question, and follows it wherever the evidence leads.
Documented evidence, interpretation and emerging hypotheses are kept clearly distinct — so you can always see what the record shows, and where the questions still open.
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Follow the Questions
Begin where the investigation begins — the Mona Lisa, examined not as an icon but as evidence.
Open the Mona Lisa CodexExamine the Evidence
Decades of research, scientific examination and source documents, kept clearly distinct from interpretation.
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The living record of the questions, discoveries and connections the investigation uncovers.
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Episodes 01 — Who Is She? and 02 — The Knot She Wears are now showing, the opening films of the enquiry.
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