"A New Da Vinci Code..." Topic

Leonardo painting has coded 'soundtrack' – Musician interpreted symbolic Christian theology as musical clues: msnbc.msn.com/id/21724485

It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.

"It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus."

In a book released Friday in Italy, Pala explains how he took elements of the painting that have symbolic value in Christian theology and interpreted them as musical clues.

Pala first saw that by drawing the five lines of a musical staff across the painting, the loaves of bread on the table as well as the hands of Jesus and the Apostles could each represent a musical note.

This fit the relation in Christian symbolism between the bread, representing the body of Christ, and the hands, which are used to bless the food, he said. But the notes made no sense musically until Pala realized that the score had to be read from right to left, following Leonardo's particular writing style.

In his book — "La Musica Celata" ("The Hidden Music") — Pala also describes how he found what he says are other clues in the painting that reveal the slow rhythm of the composition and the duration of each note.

None of that conspiracy claptrap, this has plausibility.

I'll look foreward to Dan Brown's new CD

But didn't someone take numbers from the planets orbits and call it Music From The Spheres ?

I have no doubt he believes he found something – I do have doubts it was put there intentionally.

This one is cool too…

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and here is the story:

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Craig H:

skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html

It has no plausibility. Before digging into secret and obscure codes for the patterns and compositions that da Vinci used, take the time to understand the complexity and beauty of of the actual painting composition. Read da Vinci's treatises on painting and see why he painted the way he did.

[url]http://murat.ca/art/last_supper.htm[/url]

The relevance to Renaissance wargaming escapes me.

Much in the same way these boards have any relevance to wargaming, I suppose:

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