“The eyes are the gate­way to the soul.” Was Her­man Melville sim­ply stat­ing the obvi­ous with this famous quote, or was he onto some­thing a bit more — for lack of a less Woody Allen-esque term – meta­phys­i­cal? What­ever the case may be, star­ing at the Mona Lisa today prob­a­bly has an equally stir­ring yet hyp­notic effect … Con­tinue read­ing →