Did Leonardo Da Vinci Conceal Images in The Last Supper?
Amateur scholar and information technologist Slavisa Pesci says he has discovered hidden figures in “The Last Supper,” Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15th-century masterpiece.
Pesci first reversed the image of the famed painting…
By super-imposing the reversed image on the original image, Pesci discovered what appears to be a figure holding a baby (center left). The image also appears to show Templar knights standing at opposite ends of the long table.
“I came across it by accident, from some of the details you can infer that we are not talking about chance but about a precise calculation,” Pesci told journalists during a press conference earlier this week.
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July 28th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
A careful examination of this image also shows what appears to be a chevron shape reminiscent of that seen at the Talpiot Tomb in Israel – the supposed Lost Tomb of Jesus. The chevron is visible at the apex of the triangular shape in the exact center of the image.
I recognized it because this is the same image MND uses as its http icon:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/mndv3.ico
I use this symbol because, in my opinion, it encapsulates the notion of LIFE as a function of the two genders – male and female.
In EG’s “Trinity of Accomplishment” article, in comment # 20, I articulated a formula for life as implied (if not defined) by John Barrow and Frank Tipler in their classic text, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, to whit: Life can be defined as “self-reproduction with error correction.”
I watched the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus with great initial skepticism, but, having seen it, I must say the evidence seems overwhelming.
If the Talpiot Tomb is indeed the lost tomb of Jesus – and if the secret teaching of the man Jesus were indeed systematically suppressed by early church fathers – then perhaps Dan Brown was on to something after all.
July 28th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
very interesting!! It looks like the christ has some sort of code of arms on his chest in the last picture!!
July 28th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Mike LaSalle
With all due respect to your schoarly reserach, I also saw the movie Da Vinci Code. It seemed fiction to me. Since there is already questions about the authenticity of some early Dead Sea Scrolls and other writings, don’t you think that 1500 years later Leonardo Da Vinci used some artistic lisence to create what he wanted to be seen. While the conspirators in the movie were gruesome, actors are as Richar Chamberlain about concealing his exual orientation “ilusionist”.
While some terrible things were done in the name of bringin faith to Aztecxs and others, there was a 30 years war in Europe (actually 90 years between Protestantas and Catholics. In the Nordic countries as rules changed their denomination, so had the masses.
Harry Potter’s popularity does not lead to mass conversion to wizardry. Midle Eastern crisis is between two semitic tribes that have common ancestor Abraham.
When Europians came to what now is called America, did they come to seek religious freedom or take it away from early inahabitants and put them in reservations?
Link to Wikipedia’s Da Vinci Code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code#Plot_summary
July 28th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
If you turn the superimposed new picture upside down and re-superimpose it, a legend appears very clearly on the tablecloth. ‘Quid me anxious sum’.
July 28th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
‘Quid me anxious sum’.
I’ll drink to that.
July 29th, 2007 at 3:23 am
[...] the story if you haven’t read it yet: click here. I like theories like this, hidden messages, Templar Knights, and so forth. I don’t [...]
July 29th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Anti-armchair generals – thanks for the Da Vinci code plot summary on wikipedia. I did read the book (and saw the movie), but I was actually referring to the documentary called the LOST TOMB OF JESUS, which was aired on the Discovery Channel last winter.
The film – produced by mega-gazillionaire James Cameron (who directed the movie ‘Titanic’), details the supposed archaeological discovery of Jesus’ tomb. The tomb was discovered in 1980 at a location in what is now modern Jerusalem. The tomb contained a set of family ossuaries inscribed with names like “Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph” “Mary Magdalene, wife of Jesus” “James, brother of Jesus”, etc.
While names like “Mary, James, Judah, Jesus (Yeshua)” etc., were common at the time, the odds (the PROBABILITY) that all these names would be found in the same family at the same time and in the same place are astronomical.
link 1, link 2
Obviously the fictional book “The Da Vinci Code” cannot be used as evidence of anything — except in so far as it introduces the reader to some well-established concepts in art history and religious symbolism.
In the CHOICE LINKS section on MND’s home page (column 5), you will see a link to Da Vinci Illustrations Animated. I put this link on the site a year or two ago – only because I think it’s fascinating. If you go to that site, then click on the ‘human figures in motion” link, you will see how Leonardo used techniques that are entirely consistent with modern film animation. Obviously Leonardo quite understood the dynamic – animated – aspects of nature, and applied suggested animation in his necessarily static figures. (Thus Mona Lisa appears to “look” at you as much as you look at her.)
Now – since you mentioned The Da Vinci Code and provided a link to the wikipedia entry above – you may wish to have a look at this detail of The Last Supper. Note the figure described by Dan Brown as Mary Magdalene.
Considering all of this, Pesci’s super-imposition here shows what may be construed as an “animation” of sorts, wherein the figure holding the baby on the left side of the image appears to be handing the baby to “Mary”, while the corresponding right side of the image may show the “baby” being taken away.
Yes, yes, I know: it’s speculation. So what? You must admit it’s interesting nonetheless.
July 29th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I’m looking for a connection.
If I take a random inkblot, mirror it’s image, then what do you see?
Now, the elements of this are 1+(-1) which =0, another symetrical figure with history stemming from the middle east, as well as the egg, a common symbol for the rebirth of Christ.
Obviously, DaVinci was taught the theory of fractals by the same extra terrestrial force that parted the Red Sea, the prefered cleansing place of ancient Sang Royal.
Coincidence…?
*sheesh*
July 29th, 2007 at 8:33 am
CaptDMO – I don’t think that Da Vinci – a mathematical genius far ahead of his time – did anything by accident.
Remember – Da Vinci was quite fascinated by mirror-opposites in all areas of his work in illustration. In fact, Da Vinci famously wrote his diaries “mirror”-style. At the time he died, no one could figure out what he has written in his texts. Turns out the only way to read his “code” was to hold it up to a mirror.
I’ll repeat: Leonardo was the genius of his time. The geometry and mathematics of art and illustration were his stock and trade. I doubt seriously that the mirror-image precision of The Last Supper was an accident.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:06 am
If you reverse and invert it, you can clearly see “Paul is dead”.
Mike, this stuff is written and ‘discovered’ by people who want it to be true. If Jesus were married it would mean all His teachings are false, and He isn’t the Son of God.
Believe what you will. Jesus gives you the choice.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
As I said, I fully admit this is speculative. I am not asserting that the Talpiot Tomb is necessarily the tomb of Jesus. Nor am I asserting that the images visible in The Last Supper super-imposition are necessarily reflective of the “Da Vinci Code” narrative.
I posted the article only because it is a legitimate news (and/or “entertainment”) story. (This story was covered by AP/Fox News, Reuters, etc., etc.)
My posts in the comment section are just that – personal comments related to the actual news story.
July 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Mike LaSalle,
I also saw the play and movie of “Man of the LaMancha” and loved the song “Impossible Dream”. In early days of fathers rights movement if gave me inspiration when there was no hope. But then R.F.Doyle’s The Liberator and your
Mens News Daily” (MND) came along and now there is light at the end of the tunnel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_La_Mancha#History
July 30th, 2007 at 7:32 am
I can see the face of Elvis. Top that.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
How can you miss the most obvious thing? In the new image Jesus has two heads! Isn’t that interesting?
July 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Well – I did say this would be entertaining… I rest my case.
July 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
hogwash. How many other things if flopped over & super-imposed on itself would make make unusual images.
I remember many years ago when everybody was saying Black Sabath put satanic lyrics in their music when played backwards. The show may have been on 60 minutes. In any event, the journalist had a tape recorder and said something pretty mundane like:”my mom makes apple pie” or “I love America” and it came back (when played in reverse) I salute the devil or some crap.
It’s just peoples fascination with the concept of a bogeyman.
May 31st, 2009 at 10:33 pm
if you trace the "coat of arms" created by jesus in this new image, you'll notice the double triangle with the all seeing eye at the top– seemed pretty cool, thnx for posting…..