As anyone who has taken a cursory course in any art studies can tell you, meaning in any art form is highly objective. We look to past experiences of artist and viewer to look find meaning in the piece or text.

Maybe this was what a certain man was thinking when he revealed this piece of news: not all of Mona Lisa's secrets have been revealed.

An artist in New York has found a sequence of hidden images in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the "Mona Lisa". Artist Ron Piccirillo says that by turning the painting sideways, you can see an outline of a lion, an ape, and a buffalo around Mona Lisa's head as well as a crocodile and snake coming out of her body.

Interesting, but many are asking what can this mean for the painting and art students everywhere.

Piccirillo examined and considered da Vinci's journals and says the painting is a representation of jealousy or envy.

"Give her a leopard's skin, because this creature kills the lion out of envy and by deceit," the revealing journal section reads.

With this, the artist then made the association to the lion's head, hovering above her head. Piccirillo says he's also unearthed concealed meanings in other renaissance paintings by Raphael, in addition to those in the Sistine Chapel.

Now that the information is out there, readers and experts alike are highly unconvinced with Piccirillo's theories. Art historians are doubtful and social media are buzzing with a collective groan.

The consensus seems to be that the "discovery" is overreaching and improbable; the more unkind critics are saying that he's looking too much into it and has too much time on his hands.

Perhaps Piccirillo is better off working on his art than critiquing and decoding those that the past masters have left behind.