Posted on 12/09/2011 2:33:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
A New York artist believes he's "cracked the code" of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting.
Ron Piccirillo stated on his blog that the painting is an optical illusion with one painting hidden within another. He refers to a "secret that has been hiding for five hundred years" as he claims to have found a lion's head, an ape head and a buffalo head in the painting while turning it around.
"I had first Googled this, but could not find anything on it," he stated. "How could something like this have gone unnoticed for five hundred years?"
The key to finding these illusions, Piccirillo said on the site, is to view them at an acute angle. If the viewer's eye is level with the painted horizon, he stated, the viewer may not be able to see them.
Piccirillo, a graphic designer, stated in a press release that he has solved mysteries in other pieces of Renaissance art as well.
The press release described how he read over da Vinci's writing and found passages to support his claims. He referred to a passage that he said shows the painting is not of a specific person but of the human trait envy. "It's not every day you spot something that has gone unnoticed for 500 years," Piccirillo told the UK Daily Mail.
Readers of the Daily Mail story aren't buying it. "There's nothing there at all," another said. "Any resemblance to an animal is purely coincidental."
Mona Lisa with a Head Code ping.
Oops! 21 was for you!
I didn’t know they had shown the Mona Lisa in “Highlights” magazine.
A man I know found a secret code in his peanut butter sandwich, it appeared just as he was about to add the jelly, he quickly ran to his computer and entered the code, I have sworn not tell what happened next, this was about three years ago.
ML/NJ
Hey, learn something new every day!
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No but under her left eye it says “The walrus is Paul”.
He did have some tricks up his sleeve, like this superb (and rare) *finished* painting, which is in the National Gallery:
http://www.davincibio.org/images/gallery1/ginevra_l.jpg
http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/images/ginevra-de-benci-portrait-underside.jpg
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