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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

An Italian IT expert claims to have found a secret image of the Virgin Mary and a Knight Templar inside Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper.

Pesci Slavisa said the image can only be seen in a certain light and that he had to use his computer skills to reveal it.

“I noticed a strange effect, like a shadow, when I was looking through a magazine with a reproduction of The Last Supper,” the 36-year-old explained.

“So I scanned the painting and printed it onto a transparent sheet, which I then laid over the original image.

“The result is a new painting with other figures”.

The news may revive the debate about the painting’s alleged hidden meanings, which was stirred up by Dan Brown’s bestselling thriller The Da Vinci Code.

In The Da Vinci Code, Brown controversially suggested, among other things, that the figure closest to Jesus in the painting was not St John but Mary Magdalene.

The book argues Mary Magdalene was misrepresented in male-dominated Christian history because she allegedly led the Apostles and started Jesus’s blood line: supposedly the real ‘Holy Grail’ (in French, ’sang real’ or royal blood).

The ‘truth’ about the Holy Grail is guarded by the Priory of Sion, which created the Knights Templar, according to the book.

Slavisa, however, insisted that he was not trying to prove any theories about the artwork.

“I’m not an art critic,” he said. “Other people will give explanations of the image. I limit myself to presenting what I noticed by chance, which can be verified very simply.

“I have not even read The Da Vinci Code, I’ve only seen the film, and I’m not even a Leonardo enthusiast.

“Indeed, I was not going to make my findings public at first”.

Milan Culture Councillor and renowned art critic Vittorio Sgarbi dismissed Slavisa’s claims as “pure invention”.

“Although I have not followed this matter, I think it is totally without foundation,” he said.

“The iconography of The Last Supper is the most classical and evangelical. It’s impossible that the painting contains different people from the ones that can be seen.

“Only someone as ignorant as a goat could introduce elements that are not absolutely orthodox into The Last Supper.

“If someone sees something by looking at it through a mirror then that is their point of view, but it is nothing to do with what Leonardo wanted or thought”.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: antichristian; davinci; davincicode; ignorantasagoat; italy; lastsupper; religiousintolerance; thedavincicode
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To: Petronski

Oh sheesh I didn’t realize it had been repainted umpteen times!


61 posted on 07/26/2007 8:07:22 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: NYer
As a portrait artist and writer, I have been “researching the research” re Mary Magdalene for decades - long before “The daVinci Code” - and am slowly gathering information for my own theories on MM, which include Leonardo’s painting.

I have, in my studio, a large poster of a reproduction of the painting done in oils on canvas = PRE 1545. It may have been done in Leonardo’s life time. It has been pretty much settled that if Leonardo did not work on it himself, it was done by one or more of his students - who would have also worked in the Milan wall.

The two figures, on opposite ends, in question, do not have the faint halos visible on the others. And the Mary/John figure is even more feminine than what is left on the Milan wall after all the disastrous damages over the generations

62 posted on 07/26/2007 8:09:30 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ( "...but you can't fool all of the people all the time." LINCOLN)
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To: Sacajaweau
Leonardo was NOT at the last supper..

I've checked over my post #37 several times and just can't find where I might have implied that he was.

63 posted on 07/26/2007 8:09:34 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: hardback
Actaully, further scrubbing revealed even more detail. ;)


64 posted on 07/26/2007 8:16:13 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: LexBaird
And then this....

"Finda the pope inna the pizza"

65 posted on 07/26/2007 8:17:37 AM PDT by skimbell (Conservatism Works)
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To: AngryJawa

Look “closelier”.


66 posted on 07/26/2007 8:18:56 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: NYer

I’ve wanted to reply to this for half an hour but cannot for the life of me figure out how to post photos. I’m really sorry for the distraction, but can somebody help me on this front?


67 posted on 07/26/2007 8:20:17 AM PDT by ravensandricks (Jesus rides beside me. He never buys any smokes.)
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To: Fairview

DaVinci often painted male figures with feminine features. It was his attempt to convey youth.

Nothing strange here.


68 posted on 07/26/2007 8:20:33 AM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...a conservative alternative to NPR! Check out nat synd "Rightalk with Terri and Lynn")
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To: All

69 posted on 07/26/2007 8:21:58 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Mitt Romney 08)
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To: NYer
" supposedly the real ‘Holy Grail’....."

Wi've ahlreddy goht one....."

70 posted on 07/26/2007 8:22:07 AM PDT by tracer
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To: NYer

Has anyone ever considered that materials were expensive in the days when the painting was made and that it was a frequent practice among artists to just apply a solid colr topcoat of some kind or anothewr to an existing unwanted painting and then simply paint over it. With time the oils and colors of the painting underneath could simply migrate up and bleed into the visible picture as if it was a hidden feature?


71 posted on 07/26/2007 8:23:21 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: commish

I found one in a box of Cracker Jack — I discovered it by almost choking on it, but it was worth it...


72 posted on 07/26/2007 8:23:35 AM PDT by tracer
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To: Charles Martel

73 posted on 07/26/2007 8:25:48 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
Not this stuff again...

Look, DaVinci WASN'T AT THE LAST SUPPER!!

I don't care how many women he put into his painting, or who was sitting where in the painting, or what shadows appear in the painting...the fact is it's just that--a painting, created hundreds of years after the fact!! It's not like it was a live photo.

74 posted on 07/26/2007 8:27:23 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Looks like a duck to me.


75 posted on 07/26/2007 8:29:04 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Petronski
Any sign of Waldo?

And/or Dora The Explorer?
76 posted on 07/26/2007 8:29:10 AM PDT by VOA
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To: ravensandricks
>"img src="www.wherethepicis.com"<

Reverse the "<"'s and it'll work. But the image has to be hosted somewhere. You can't simply point to your own hard drive.

Hope that helps.

L

77 posted on 07/26/2007 8:30:05 AM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
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To: snowsislander

That’s quite a history lesson ... thank you for sharing it.


78 posted on 07/26/2007 8:32:16 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: Lurker
Thanks!
79 posted on 07/26/2007 8:44:55 AM PDT by ravensandricks (Jesus rides beside me. He never buys any smokes.)
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To: NYer

Yeah, sure!


80 posted on 07/26/2007 8:51:24 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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