She WAS smiling! New project which shows what Mona Lisa would have looked like if she'd posed for a photograph answers one of art's oldest questions
By James Dunn For Mailonline

Four classic paintings have been recreated as if they were photographs, each taking 36 hours to make
Photographer, stylist and makeup artist worked together to transform four models into classic paintings
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, self-portraits by Raphael and Rembrandt are recreated in the art project
Led by digital artist Quentin Devine to celebrate Raiders of the Lost Art, airing on the channel Yesterday

Famous artworks including the Mona Lisa and The Blue Boy - along with self-portraits by Rembrandt and Raphael - have been turned into photorealistic pictures.

Using digital manipulation, four classic paintings were transformed to reveal what the subjects would have looked like in real life.

The artworks include the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, self-portraits by grandmasters Rembrandt and Raphael, and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy.

Famous artworks including the Mona Lisa have been turned into photorealistic pictures using digital manipulation Pictured, left, is the famous Da Vinci painting, and on the right, a new life-like digital version

The self portrait by Rembrandt (left) has also been recreated digitally (right) to show to show how it might have looked as a photograph

The art project was led by leading digital artist Quentin Devine to celebrate Raiders of the Lost Art airing on the TV channel Yesterday.

Mr Devine said: 'This was a fascinating project to work on, if not a bit intimidating when trying to imitate the skill of some of the most famous painters in history.

'Myself and the team have tried to create the most photo-realistic representation of these iconic artworks as we can, bringing them into the modern world for the first time.'

To create the images, a photographer, stylist and makeup artist worked together to transform four models into their classical painting counterparts.

Final touches were subsequently made to the portraits by a digital artist - with each picture taking 36 hours to complete.

Adrian Wills, general manager for Yesterday, said: 'Adrian Wills, general manager for Yesterday, said: 'It's extraordinary to see familiar historic individuals we've only ever seen rendered in oil, through a modern photographic lens.

Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, the painting pictured on the left and the recreation on the right, also features in project led by digital artist Quentin Devine to celebrate Raiders of the Lost Art airing on TV channel Yesterday

A self-portrait by Raphael, the painting

To create the images, a photographer, stylist and makeup artist worked together to transform four models into their classical painting counterparts

A self-portrait by Raphael (left, the painting, and right, the recreation) is the final of the four classics, which each took 36 hours of digital work to create

'People have pondered for centuries on Mona Lisa's ambiguous facial expression - was she smiling or frowning?

'This recreation indicates it was indeed a smile, and she was perhaps more beautiful than the painting suggests.

'It's incredible that we can finally see what grandmasters Raphael and Rembrandt would have looked like in real life.

'They could never have imagined their paintings could be recreated so accurately more than three centuries later.

'We commissioned this series of artfully digitised images to encourage people to watch Raiders of the Lost Art on the Yesterday channel, and to learn more about the fascinating history behind the world's most iconic paintings..'

Raiders of the Lost Art airs weekdays from 9 November at 2pm and also available through UKTV Play's catch up service.

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