The Mona Lisa or La Gioconda Florence, Italy, 1503. Leonardo da Vinci begins work on a portrait commissioned by a wealthy silk merchant for his wife, but it is a painting he will never part with, he became obsessed over every detail for what would be the last 16 years of his life–the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa or La Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci It is only a portrait and yet it seems to have dimensions and mysteries that have yet to be explained. It is a different kind of a portrait, something that we you look at, mysteriously takes you away between the details and the colors, the smile and the most simple details of the portrait. The position of the hands an so many other details and factors come into play. The smile you can see in the Mona Lisa is not the normal kind of smile you would see in a ordinary portrait so what is it about the Mona Lisa? and why would he dedicate so much time of his life to this painting. There are a lot of theories that Leonardo has secret symbols and secret messages in his paintings. Everything he’s doing he’s rethinking even traditional subjects in the very beginning and really imagining them in new and creative ways. So is it possible, that as in his writing’s Leonardo used similar techniques in his paintings, using the mirror to see different dimensions and aspects. So is it possible that Leonardo applied his mirror technique to hide secret messages in the Mona Lisa? At the Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, graphical designer Terrence Masson used computer technology to search for hidden messages in Leonardo’s masterworks. Leonardo’s portraiture always has very dramatic hand positioning. His hand position was a clue to the access points of rotation of the mirror. When Terrence Masson applied that to the digital copy of the Mona Lisa this is what the result was: You can clearly see somehting, it depends on each person what to make of it, and the question a lot of people will ask themselves; is this helmet-shaped creature simply the product of a parlor trick? If so, then why can a similar creature be seen in another famous painting by da Vinci: Virgin and Child with St. Anne? This other example, Virgin of the Rocks, again we notice dramatic hand positioning maybe indicating where the reflective plane should be positioned. Basically what we are getting, when thinking clearly is a modern day Extraterrestrial, without a doubt, so could there really be hidden messages in Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings? Messages that reveal his burst of creativity, imagination and knowledge? London, England. In the British Library, isLeonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel, a collection of 283 papers containing drawings, inventions, thoughts and writings covering numerous scientific and creative disciplines. There are thousands and thousands of documents which tell us what Leonardo was thinking about, but what is curious is that there is almost no personal record. Found among Leonardo’s papers were a few personal anecdotes, composed just after his two-year disappearance between 1476 and 1478. In one account, the Leonardo details his youthful adventure finding a vast and mysterious cave, he describes being on the edge of this dark cave, and saying that he felt terrified by the darkness of that cave and what might be within it. On the other hand, he felt a certain desire to try to understand what was in there. Some people have speculated that this incident occurred around the same time as when he fashioned his famous shield with the head of the monstrous Medusa on it. So the question we ask ourselves is what exactly did Leonardo find in this cave? We can assume that this was a very significant event in his life, because it made a strong enough impression on him to write it down as one of the few autobiographical notes he ever made. So why would, Leonardo da Vinci, who almost never wrote of his personal life choose to describe and write about this cave and why was the experience of that cave so important to him. After his encounter with the cave One of the things that we see in the grotesque heads is a fairly marked departure from the natural appearance of the human body, the human face, even in its most extreme manifestation Visually, the works are so compelling. They’re often slightly creepy they’ve got this very strange presence to them. They are misshapen faces, elongated skulls, flattened faces. Very eerie, troubling, monstrous images. Leonardo is an artist known for careful, realistic depiction of what he was looking at, which raises the question– what in the world was he looking at? Did he actually encounter creatures that looked like this? Are Leonardo’s grotesque heads simply products of the artist’s creative imagination or is there something more to these shocking images from Leonardo da Vinci.
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