Mensa's World Gathering 2021

Caroline Cocciardi
Author



A writer and filmmaker, Caroline began an independent study on Leonardo da Vinci while living in Rome. Her 20-year research led to a da Vinci discovery. She detected that the minute, interlocking embroidered knot pattern on Mona Lisa’s dress deviated from the decorative embroidery of the day. Overlooked for centuries yet visual to the naked eye, the “Mona Lisa Knot” was a mathematical pattern based on its angular crossing patterns. In the process of looking in Leonardo’s codices for his preliminary sketches of this knot, she discovered he had dedicated a lifetime to his knot artworks. Her newly released art book, Leonardo’s Knots, introduces readers to, among other things, the Renaissance painter’s passion for intertwining knots. Caroline has lectured for many institutions and museums about da Vinci’s knot art. In 2009, her documentary Mona Lisa Revealed was featured at the Carmel Film Festival. The film focuses on engineer Pascal Cotte, inventor of the multispectral camera that uncovered five centuries of secrets within the world’s most famous painting. Caroline represented Cotte’s Mona Lisa photographs in a worldwide Leonardo exhibition.

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