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Secret image ‘found’ in Last Supper
Italy Magazine ^
| July 26, 2007
Posted on 07/26/2007 7:03:19 AM PDT by NYer
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To: templar
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:21:03 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: Badeye
Sure, the ignorant will make fun of this revelation, but maybe this guy was given magic glasses by the angel Moroni; have you thought of that?
22
posted on
07/26/2007 7:21:22 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
(ill)
To: NYer
Wait, there’s a Hooter’s girl in the painting? Who would have thought DaVinci was that creative.
23
posted on
07/26/2007 7:21:39 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(Every woman, who can, should learn to shoot, and carry a gun.)
To: Mr. Lucky
‘Sure, the ignorant will make fun of this revelation, but maybe this guy was given magic glasses by the angel Moroni; have you thought of that?’
Maybe it was ‘magic dust’?
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:22:14 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: Badeye
Actually, that’s every bit as likely as this guy’s story.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:23:58 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
(ill)
To: Mr. Lucky
Actually, thats every bit as likely as this guys story.
I think the guy just wanted some attention.
26
posted on
07/26/2007 7:25:05 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: NYer
27
posted on
07/26/2007 7:25:10 AM PDT
by
hardback
(l)
To: NYer
What are the chances that he just painted over another picture?
It’s been done before.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:25:50 AM PDT
by
airborne
(ATTENTION PA FREEPERS !! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: NYer
The Last Supper was largely an experimental piece on the part of Leonardo. Traditional fresco painting was done in one of two styles,
buon or
secco. Both employed water soluble media, with buon fresco being painted into the wet plaster, and secco fresco painted onto plaster that had already dried. By nature, fresco, particularly the buon technique offered tremendous permanence, it did not allow for the optical effects that could be achieved with a oil paints and the layering of translucent layers, glazes and varnishes. Leonardo's
Last Supper was an attempt on the part of the artist to reconcile the best of both worlds, and while producing a monumental example of Renaissance painting, his experiment was a technical failure, and began to decay during the artist's own lifetime.
The fact of the matter is, this painting has been "restored" and repaired so many times by so many hands that there is plenty of doubt as to how close what we see today is to what Leonardo actually painted. I find it highly doubtful that any "newly discovered" hidden or subliminal symbols were actually part of the original design, or if they were, were only hidden by subsequent artists.
The whole Dan Brown thing, about the presence of Mary Magdalene's appearance in the painting is highly spurious, given that most of the faces as we view them now, are probably only vague suggestions of the manner in which they were originally rendered.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:25:59 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
Comment #30 Removed by Moderator
To: NYer
South Park was right. St. Peter was really a rabbit.
I KNEW IT!
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:29:25 AM PDT
by
AngryJawa
({IDPA, NRA} GO HUNTER '08)
To: hardback
All kidding aside, that does look like a chick on Jesus’s right.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:29:35 AM PDT
by
Fairview
( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
To: Roccus
It is a painting...not a photograph of the Last Supper. DaVinci was NOT in attendence at that table, so ANY depiction that he creates is from his imagination. Same here. All I could figure is that this conspiracy includes the idea that Da Vinci knew about the secrets alleged by the theorists to be true.
33
posted on
07/26/2007 7:30:21 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: evets
Here's another example of a famous painting rife with masonic/templar symbolism:
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:33:23 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: NYer
Is this the same guy who hears stuff when playing old Beatles records backwards at 66 rpm?
To: hardback
OK, what’s that thing under the guy’s arm that is sitting third from the right? Looks like a stuffed pig.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:35:12 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: airborne
What are the chances that he just painted over another picture? 'Slim' and 'None'.
It's a mural that Leonardo painted on a wall of stone...not a canvas.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:35:27 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
To: Badeye
38
posted on
07/26/2007 7:35:52 AM PDT
by
Eagle of Liberty
(To Liberals like Pelosi, it's not about serving America, IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER!)
To: Fairview
I’ve always thought that, even as a little kid.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:36:33 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: LexBaird
“It would not surprise me to discover that there are figures in an underpainting that were eliminated or repositioned in the final composition. That doesnt make them secret messages.”
Your theory is a good one, but he might have indeed intended it to be a “secret message” - from his imagination.
I paint using oil based paints and various quality canvasses. Often times, I purposely weave in and/or add “hidden” images in the painting or beind the obvious picture. Some people “see” what’s “hidden” to the naked eye, some people don’t - or they do after a time.
Regardless, it’s a painting, not a snapshot.
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