OT: Real Da Vinci Code Discovered

[MidLifeCrisis]

And it's music!!!

 

A computer technician has claimed to have cracked a real Da Vinci code, by finding musical notes encoded in the masterpiece The Last Supper.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci left clues to a 40-second musical composition in his painting, Giovanni Maria Pala said.

 

Each loaf of bread in the picture represents a note, he said, which combine to sound "like a requiem".

 

http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/32751/2004650263867564360_rs.jpg

 

Alessandro Vezzosi, director of Tuscany's Da Vinci museum, said the theory was "plausible".

 

The 15th century painting depicts Jesus' last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion.

 

'Emphasises passion'

 

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

 

The notes make sense musically when the resulting score is read from right to left, following Da Vinci's own writing style, Mr Pala said in his book La Musica Celata (The Hidden Music).

 

The result is a 40-second "hymn to God" which Mr Pala described as "like a soundtrack that emphasises the passion of Jesus".

 

Mr Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale in the painter's home town Vinci, said that while Da Vinci was noted for his paintings, sculptures and inventions, he was also a musician.

 

"There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there, but it's certain that the spaces (in the painting) are divided harmonically," he said.

 

"Where you have harmonic proportions, you can find music."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7088600.stm

[linwood]

Cool. Too bad he didn't post an mp3 and then do Dali's. Reminds me of when I watched Steve Allen play a photo of a bunch of blackbirds sitting on telephone lines.

[SilverDragonSoun]

What's interesting is there is on the website you can also magnify the picture exponentially. I have a feeling more than music is still waiting to be found. I put musical notes in my picture when I was in first grade and it went straight into the trash. I told my parents that picture would be worth something some day.

[Steve Force]

I deciphered the loaves and the tune Da Vinci left us was, believe it or not..

 

Innagaddavida

 

 

 

 

[wjwilcox]

Oh. I thought it was "That's Amore".....

[moj]

Here's a news clip vid with audio of the composition. A music staff is superimposed over the paintng and scrolls from right to left as it plays. It's very interesting that this painting is more than it seems. Da Vinci was a clever one.

 

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=4947784&ch=4226726&src=news

[Dave Horne]

Yea, and if you play it backwards it sounds very much like Paul is dead.

[Zack Pomerleau]

But... I don't get this... Whats the point of the music?

[SK]

Reminds me of when I watched Steve Allen play a photo of a bunch of blackbirds sitting on telephone lines.

 

Steve Allen could be brilliant.

 

I can't tell if this requiem was intended, or just wishful thinking, like the random blackbirds on the telephone lines. The symmetry found in some classic paintings could probably be interpreted as a repetition of tones.

[Dave E]

Weren't there only four lines back in DaVinci's day?

[kanker.]

Weren't there only four lines back in DaVinci's day?

Yes, but DaVinci snorted all of them.

[linwood]

He was also a comic. Kind of the Shecky Greene of his day and was once over heard muttering "Here's that bread I owe ya."