Posted on 10/28/2007 10:42:46 AM PDT by RooRoobird20
Hubby and I just had the privilege of viewing Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" in the Basilica of S. Mariua Delle Gazie (Milan, Italy). Even the best photographs of this masterpiece don't capture all the details.
Question: There appears to be the image of a face in the folds of St. Barthomew's robe, to the lower left of his hand. He is the leftmost figure in the painting.
St. Bartholmew was skinned alived and crucified upside down in the 8th century. The image in Da Vinci's painting is similar to St. Bartholomew as painted by Michelangelo in "The Last Judgement"--the skin of St. Bartholomew's face appears next to his figure.
Has anyone out there seen "The Last Supper" in person and observed the same thing? I can't find ANYTHING written on this anywhere and am "googled" out. I don't think hubby and I are "seeing Elvis" in half-melted refrigerator ice (LOL).
I would appreciate anyone's feedback on this.
Converted Catholic dittoes!!!
I see the “face” he’s talking about. It’s called “matrixing”. The human tendency to see faces in patterns. I’ve also heard it referred to as the ‘three-dot theory’. We see a human image when we do something like this: :-)
Looks like he’s holding the skin of a dead man, not a robe.
But I can see why you might think it’s a robe, cuz he’s almost totally nekkid.
whoops- looking at the wrong link in post 3. doh!
Yes, I see it too. Looks like a haunted tree from the Wizard of Oz.
Hey, since we’re discussing art, here are my two favorite paintings of Jesus. They’re at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota.
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