Mona Lisa and other art masterpieces come to life in a new exhibit in Beijing. The famous painted characters can both talk and move in the exhibit. Jesus and the Disciples all come to life in the exhibit's digitally animated version of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. Reuters says $7 million was spent developing the 3-D holographic technology. Over 400 artists and engineers were involved in the project.
It looks like a very interesting exhibit. The characters do seem to come to life in this Reuters video, but something about the proportions looks a bit off. The Mona Lisa's hands are quite large for a woman: scholars say that large hands were considered quite beautiful at the time and many paintings show women with larger hands. Other scholars believe that the woman in the portrait is pregnant and her hands are swollen a bit. In the animation, they look positively huge. Take a look:
