Does ‘The Last Supper’ Really Have a Hidden Meaning?

the Last Supper one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works plays a key role in ron howard's 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code the movie claims the figure sitting to Jesus's right is Mary Magdalene not the disciple John as the church would have us believe and that she is the Holy Grail when I saw the movie the of them Brown and I read the book I was very happy because it was a very beautiful novel but is science fiction Mario to die is a Milan based inventor and an expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci he spent 15 years analyzing the Renaissance masters work trying to get inside his mind Mario doesn't believe the movies claims and for good reason he knows da Vinci's version of the Last Supper was just that a version before gana da Vinci there are hundreds of last suppers and when he painted the last suppers he had to follow some rules the user wants to have the people in that position with death smile so people can recognize the different apostles at one by one before Leonardo's Last Supper all of the other copies look very similar artists used the same formula to depict Christ's disciples st. Peter handles a knife Judas carries a purse of silver and Saint John the youngest disciple is always shown as a youthful feminine looking figure is this a John or Maria Magdalene is a very easy question but it's a stupid question because it must be John because Leonardo had to head to copy the Last Supper before him and John looks like a woman that lerna da Vinci just copied these things because they must be in this way so it must be recognizable as John that's it the movie asks us to believe that the Last Supper contains letters hidden in plain sight and M referring to Mary Magdalene and a V the symbol of a chalice typically known as the Holy Grail or as The Da Vinci Code would have us believe a V for the shape of a womb according to the experts if you look hard enough all paintings contain shapes that look like letters Leonardo da Vinci may not be revealing the truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus's relationship in his painting but he is sending a message one that five centuries ago was just as controversial as The Da Vinci Code before Leonardo da Vinci all versions of the Last Supper showed Jesus and His disciples with halos in effect portraying them as Saints but da Vinci chose to ignore this convention and paint them without halos I believe that Leonardo never put a halo set because he think that that people are common people and this is their true secret of Leonardo there is no extraterrestrial a supernatural object inside the Last Supper no not the one to tell us that they did 13 men are simple men's and is a sin said something much more powerful Leonardo da Vinci is communicating a subtle message with his last supper he's telling us that Jesus was immortal a theme echoed in The Da Vinci Code

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Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2013