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”.
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...In a word: Yes. At least as far back as post #28. Others may have considered considering it too, but they're read both the article and the topic before posting and considered it redundant and an admission that they hadn't bothered reading the considered comments of previous posters. What's your excuse?
Sounds like a Global Warming scientist responding to criticism, doesn't it?
“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”.
This is absolutely hilarious considering how Leonardo wrote his notes.
If supposed "experts" sound this ignorant, even the goats have to la-a-a-a-ugh at them.
This Kahlua, vodka, and milk is poured for you and for many, for the removal of consciousness.
It’s Bush’s fault!!
Idiots at war with the Church.
People who believe in nothing will fall for anything.
Despite media claims that they treated the DaVinci Code PURELY as fiction, time and time again they report details within it as fact.
“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”.
Pfaah! Leonardo reused a canvas, more likely.
It’s art. The artist can do whatever he wants. But the rest of us should reply in kind, not as if it is Gospel.
ah, there he is...
I was waiting for him to appear, lol.
he sure gets around.
The people who see hidden pictures in pictures, and hidden text in text, need to get another hobby.
I understand that. And I understand also that da Vinci may have been homosexual, which would naturally predispose him to portray male figures in a somewhat effeminate manner. But (a) as far as we know, nobody in the Apostles was a beardless boy, and (b) this figure does bear a very striking resemblance to some of the famous female characters da Vinci painted, including Ginevra de Benci.
Not that I believe any of the silly theories about Mary Magdalene, of course. If it were important for us to know much about her, these things would be in the Scriptures.
notice how the disciples are grouped into 4 sets of 3. The ‘sun’ and the 4 seasons?...
/Illuminati
Bump for reference ....
Of the Last Supper...
on your arm.
Well... 
I'll take her's over your's!
Now, that's... 
just sick!
I found a different hidden image.
It is Mickey Mouse saying “F#ck You!” to Iran.
Or, they could represent 4 tires and Jesus as the steering wheel.
Pope’s hat = fish hat worn by Babylonian god
Samson’s hair = sun rays.
/more Illuminati
Carmen Sandiego?
Excellent point. I wonder how many people who read the Da Vinci Code (or saw the movie) actually believed that the story was real?
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