Monday, December 10, 2007

Is God's face in Leonardo da Vinci's work?

It is well-documented that Leonardo, who lived between 1452 and 1519, often wrote in mirror writing, either in an attempt to stop his rivals stealing his ideas or in a bid to hide his scientific theories, often deemed as subversive, from the powerful Roman Catholic Church.

But now a group known as The Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings World Foundation believes that he applied the same technique to some of his best-known creations, including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, to conceal mysterious faces and religious symbols.


I suppose it was only a matter of time. Unsurprisingly, the "mirroring" technique has been used tirelessly in an effort to make sense of intriguing formations on the surface of Mars. I hesitate to call it an invalid research tool, but it's fraught with unique aesthetic difficulties.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The mirrored da Vinci work is pretty weak stuff but I think the reasoned few of us know that the face on Mars is really a collapsed structure http://darkplanetonline.com/NewFiles/face_plotted.jpg

Even with the symmetrical imbalance there are a number of geological anomalies which are frankly just too coincidental. I'm a fan of the loonie theory that it was nuked from high orbit to conceal the truth ;)

Denny

Mac said...

I'm a fan of the loonie theory that it was nuked from high orbit to conceal the truth ;)

Yeah, I've heard that one too. Oy!