A Hampshire artist has painted the world's smallest Mona Lisa - and it's less than a quarter the size of a postage stamp.The tiny replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous painting is just 11mm high and seven millimetres wide.
Andrew Nicholls, 44, from Farnborough, painstakingly recreated the Mona Lisa in record 70:1 scale after reading about the previous holder on a hobby craft website.
To break the record he had to paint his entire masterpiece while peering through a magnifying glass.
Mr Nicholls used a 0000 gauge brush, consisting of just a few strands tapered to a fine point, to layer his acrylic paint on a piece of card.
He said: "I have been painting tiny pictures for dolls houses for five years now and can produce one of them in about an hour.
"But the detail of the Mona Lisa was much more difficult and I wanted to get it right.
"I used a tiny 0000 gauge paintbrush and don't believe it's possible to make the painting any smaller without compromising on detail or using a magnifying glass to see the finished item."
The previous record of 9 x 13 millimetres was held by Yves Gerard, from Luxembourg, whose work is housed at the Musee de la Miniature in Drome, France.
Mr Nicholls added: "I have never seen the original Mona Lisa but I would love to visit Paris and see it. It would be incredible to see my work mounted next to the original, so people can get some idea of scale." (Ananova.com)
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