@loser: I think so too :) Unlike many artists, da Vinci could paint impressive, lifelike hands but when it came to eyebrows, well… Another theory I’ve heard is that, along with the vogue for ‘enhanced foreheads’ (@hungryhungryhortence) to denote ‘highbrow’ intelligence and being noble/‘wellbred’, the shaving of eyebrows and plucking or trimming of eyelashes served a practical purpose: it ensured that nits (lice) couldn’t – literally – hang around your eyes. (As for the shaving of the ‘pits and bits’, @AstroChuck, one of my art teacher’s expressed strong opinions on that matter, but at that point in the Iesson I thought it best to leave him and the life model to continue their debate privately.)