DaVinci Code

[Lemonaide]

Has everyone watched the Tom Hanks movie? What did everyone think of his new face. Beyond that, here's something for your encoding fun.

First of all, I realized that the idea of mish-mashing all the symbols of the world together in one pot wasn't going to really do much. But looking at DaVinci as an artist, it just seems clear to me that he simply employs all of the techniques that an artist would normally use in creating a dynamic canvas... For example, in the Mona Lisa the background is laid out so that it includes a diagonal, which is something that helps make the painting 'move'. Also, in the Last Supper, since everyone is at a dinner, which is normally seated, he moves the people around on the canvas to create more movement, otherwise the characters woule be static if seated on the same plane. Also, I noticed the reference to the Cup and so forth, it's absence rather than it's presence. It occurred to me that in the scene just before the description of the Last Supper that the characters passed through a "gated Garden' representing the Agony of the Garden in which Jesus was to have said "father take this cup from me". I believe now, that Leonardo was perhaps suggesting that the cup would be taken from him. The insulting part to all Christian people is the suggestions that Mary Magdeline was somehow a wife to Jesus. I think this is a mistake and one should be able to understand that many many religious people were very much able to forego marriage and relationships in favor of a religious life. Mary Magdeline was whoever she was, and was possibly included in the painting to suggest the first Nun. Mary the mother of Jesus, was really the mother of Jesus, and all the speculations are sort of gross. Looking again at the Mona Lisa, I don't get what the mystery is, Leonardo like to paint what was 'not there' occassionally, his mother, was called "The Laughing One" and the Mona Lisa has been considered to be his mother. Leonardo was the son of a middle class Notary Public and his mother an ordinary person living in Italy. At the time a more wealthy person may have shown an interest in raising Leonardo as an apprentice. It was not uncommon in Italy for a benefactor to take care of the education of an intellegent young son, many of whom went onto the Priesthood, and the parents still could keep in close contact with their son. Today, in some parts of the world, for example, Fiji, their are many parents who let aunts or other relatives take care of their youngest kid, even to the extent of letting them go off to live in Australia for an education. I could go on a bit more, but this may be enough. Except that I sort of realized as well how much the English tried to rip apart the Roman Church out of jealousy and look where it has gone.


Comments about this? How about the Rose-line? The Tutor line? Did they want authority over the church that badly....?????

[Lemonaide]

Also, the rose is used in England and traditionally the fleur dis lis is used both in England and in France, during the crusaides, so, I wondered which country they were trying to indicate, but also too Leonardo died in France.