Mona latte: Da Vinci's Lisa masterpiece recreated using cups of coffee
This stunning recreation of the Mona Lisa has been made with a staggering 3,604 cups of coffee - and 564 pints of milk.
The different colours were created by adding varying amounts of milk to each cup of black coffee.
It measures an impressive 20ft by13ft – nearly ten times the size of Leonardo da Vinci’s original masterpiece - and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.
It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and was seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers’ event.
Elaine Kelly, from organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result.
She said: ‘Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting...
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The different colours were created by adding varying amounts of milk to each cup of black coffee.
It measures an impressive 20ft by13ft – nearly ten times the size of Leonardo da Vinci’s original masterpiece - and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.
It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and was seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers’ event.
Elaine Kelly, from organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result.
She said: ‘Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting...