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New theory about "The Last Supper" picture by Leonardo da Vinci
07/27/2007 16:26:43 / just another day
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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