New 'Last Supper' Theory Crashes Websites
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
A new theory that Leonardo’s “Last Supper” might hide within it a depiction of Christ blessing the bread and wine has triggered so much interest that Web sites connected to the picture have crashed.More here.
The famous fresco is already the focus of mythical speculation after author Dan Brown based his “The Da Vinci Code” book around the painting, arguing in the novel that Jesus married his follower, Mary Magdelene, and fathered a child.
Now Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist and amateur scholar, says superimposing the “Last Supper” with its mirror-image throws up another picture containing a figure who looks like a Templar knight and another holding a small baby.
posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2007 12:12:00 PM
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The daVinci Project
We at the daVinci Project™ are happy to see people like Mr. Pesci Slavisa having an interest in looking for “Pictures within Pictures”™ in Leonardo da Vinci’s works. We wonder however in this case whether the method used to find this particular image is a valid one, one that Leonardo might have been able to use to create a hidden image or encrypted message given the lack of the ability to create accurate duplicate images at that time in history. We are not disputing that an image can be found or “constructed” using a method of duplication and transparent transposition or inverse transparent transposition, just that… could it, and would Leonardo using the technology available to him at the time have likely done it? The da Vinci Project, having found many, many images using technologies described by, articulated by and applied by Leonardo at the time, believe this particular image likely not to be a da Vinci construct.
Mr. Slavisa makes no claims other than that he has “found” an image and we applaud him for presenting his image without claim for others to judge. It is a wise and appropriate position.
The da Vinci Project™ and its Managing Director Michael Domoretsky, take an approach whereby we review all of the Master’s writings and other works. We then compare and look for patterns in his writings, inventions and artworks over time, looking for precedents, methods and connections that can be applied to his artwork, where he has apparently chosen to encrypt many of the secrets he sought to pass on. We have noted a definite consistency of technique in his using mirrors throughout his career for encryption, and in the perfecting of specific methods in his art works. It is clear in understanding his scientific and inventive genius that he had a definite tendency to work outside the box, and outside the conventional frame... by hundreds of years… The secrets of his view, and perspectives, his explanations on lighting, darkness and shade, were unique at the time and unique to Leonardo daVinci; and it is very obvious that he applied these ideas to his works throughout his life to his many masterpieces.
Strange as it may seem Leonardo’s “out of the box, outside the frame”™ encryptions have remained hidden for over 500 years until 2005 when Michael Domoretsky discovered and duplicated the methods while researching one of Leonardo’s works, the very famous Mona Lisa.
The perpendicular reverse mirror image process and the optical illusion, the use of subtle lighting, were first used by Leonardo, applied to various sketches and paintings in his youth, and used on into his twilight years to encrypt his messages to keep them hidden from the dogmatic political and religious powers of the day. The encryptions are proof of Leonardo’s ingenuity and the trouble he went through to keep the images hidden. The processes are demonstrated for all who wish to understand them on the www. Website.
For the first time in five hundred years, when completed, the “true daVinci code” will come to light in its entirety in “Pictures Within Pictures”, a documentary project that the daVinci Project has been working on since 2005.
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