New theory about "The Last Supper" picture by Leonardo da Vinci
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Dude01
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just another day
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07/27/2007 16:26:43
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Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist and
amateur
scholar, says superimposing the "Last Supper" with
its
mirror-image throws up another picture containing
a figure who
looks like a Templar knight and another holding a
small baby.
"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 when
he unveiled
the theory earlier this week. In the
superimposed version, a figure on Christ's left
appears to be cradling a baby in its arms, Pesci
said, but he
made no suggestion this could be Christ's
child.
Judas, whose imminent betrayal of Christ is the
force
breaking the right-hand line of the original
fresco, appears in
an empty space on the left in the reverse image
version.
And Pesci also suggests that the superimposed
version shows
a goblet before Christ and illustrates when Christ
blessed
bread and wine at a supper with his disciples for
the first
Eucharist.
The original Da Vinci depicts Christ when he
predicts that
one among them will betray him.
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