In November 2017, a giant auction center in New York, USA, was auctioning the most expensive painting ever. In the painting, a long-haired man is looking straight ahead, three fingers of his right hand twisted into a twist and pointing to the sky, and his left hand is holding a crystal ball, the name of this painting is "The Savior", which was auctioned for $450 million, as the most expensive painting ever, it also attracted the attention of the whole world, but shortly after the sale, someone pointed out that it may be a fake, because the crystal ball in the painting did not show the refraction effect of light, as the master of the painting, it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake.
This involves the author of this painting, the author is the Renaissance all-round genius, the famous Leonardo da Vinci, the creator of the world famous painting "Mona Lisa", as we all know, foreigners are first in the name, the last name is in the back, so Leonardo's real name should be Leonardo, but for the sake of convenience, we still call him Leonardo below. Leonardo da Vinci can be said to be an all-round genius, he is the illegitimate son of an Italian nobleman, so he can't show his face on weekdays, but he has taught himself a lot of things, and he has not learned the skin, it can be said that every line is learned out of the magic, as the saying goes: three hundred and sixty lines, the line is out of shape, but Leonardo da Vinci can say that the line is a piece.
According to baidu encyclopedia, Leonardo da Vinci in painting, music, architecture, mathematics, geometry, cryptography, planing, astronomy, physics, optics and other fields have significant achievements, said that significant achievements may not be intuitive, then let's take a look at his designs, there are helicopters, submarines and other modern equipment, can you think of this is 400 years ago people designed?
In addition to painting, Leonardo da Vinci's most enthusiastic discipline should be cryptography, he wrote more than 7,000 pages of pickaxes in his lifetime, which hid countless passwords, one of which has been deciphered by someone, known as the mirror code, because Leonardo da Vinci's brain is different from ordinary people, can write with his right hand like his left hand, in short, he can write the word backwards, and if he wants to interpret the content, he must use a mirror to see. As for why he used a password to write a pickaxe, some people speculate that it is the secret he left in the pickaxe, which is too shocking and vulgar, and if it is discovered, it will be destroyed immediately.
Later, Leonardo da Vinci felt that it was not safe to use a password pickaxe, and decided to hide the secret in his paintings, paintings worth hundreds of millions of dollars, no one would destroy them casually, right? Speaking of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, the first thing that comes to mind is of course the Mona Lisa, but this painting is too small, or another large one, this is a mural, 4.6 meters high, 8.8 meters wide, enough to hide any secrets.
The mural of this painting in a church in Milan is Leonardo da Vinci's long-brewed work "The Last Supper", but the fresco we see now is already incomplete, because the church bishop at that time suddenly had a cerebral hemorrhage and opened a door under the fresco, so Jesus' feet could not be seen, and what can be found on the Internet now is a restoration of this fresco.
Because Leonardo da Vinci was not willing to be ordinary, when painting this painting, he did not use mediocre pigments, but created a pigment of his own, but because of the addition of a lot of organic matter to the pigments, the mural began to fall off because of moisture after 50 years of completion. So the church sent someone to repair it, and this repair was endless, and after repairing this side, that side fell off again, so until today, 400 years later, it is still being repaired.
But the more it is restored, the more we have to think about the details of the original work, of course, if something is wrong, it will be discovered, we first look at this fresco, depicting a famous scene in the Bible, Jesus was preparing to go to Jerusalem, but the Jewish priests at that time heard the news, they were ready to arrest Jesus, but he did not know Jesus, so he used a bounty of 30 silver coins to bribe one of Jesus' Judas disciples.
On the day of The Feast of Pleasure in Jerusalem, Jesus sat down with twelve disciples for dinner, and Jesus suddenly said, One of you will betray me, and the painting "The Last Supper" shows the tension in the scene after Jesus said this. In the picture, Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, was very nervous after hearing these words, holding his money bag in his hand and showing a look of horror on his face.
The other disciples' expressions were much more normal, more incredible, and they were still discussing who the traitor was. But in addition to these two expressions, a disciple next to Judas, with a calm sadness on his face, seemed to know everything for a long time, who was he?
In the past, everyone thought that this was Saint John, but also one of Jesus' favorite disciples, strangely, Leonardo da Vinci used the technique of painting John, but he used the method of painting women, you know that Jesus did not have female disciples, ah, in John used female painting, just like painting tigers and cats, so who is Leonardo da Vinci painting? In 1990, a foreign musician said that he found a hidden score in the Last Supper, and he took the meal on the table and the disciple's hand as a note, and then drew the stave, and got the mysterious score, let's hear what the effect is.
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Clutter, right? But if we play the score upside down according to Leonardo da Vinci's habit of writing from right to left, let's hear what the effect is.
If the score cannot be made into a tune, or a cheerful tune, it means that this conjecture is nonsense, but the score is indeed a sad tone, in line with the theme of the painting "The Last Supper", then it seems that this musician has indeed interpreted the Leonardo da Vinci code. Because Leonardo da Vinci also made achievements in music, it is also a reasonable speculation to hide the score in the painting. In this way, it can be said that the placement of the hands and feet of each disciple in the painting was painted by Leonardo da Vinci after consideration, so the use of female techniques to paint disciple John must have a special purpose, but this Da Vinci code, no one can interpret it yet.
Just when everyone is still trying to decipher the mystery of the female John, the sky-high painting "The Savior" was auctioned in 2017, and there is already a mature interpretation, and I remember saying at the beginning of the video that someone inferred that the painting was a fake based on the lack of detail in the crystal ball in the painting, but most of the experts thought it was genuine, and as for the mystery of the crystal ball, there is now an explanation.
The figure in the painting looks at the audience with calm eyes, and the three fingers of his right hand are twisted and pointed to the sky, representing the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is also a detail in the painting, that is, the clothes near the right rib of Jesus, there is a crack, people who have read the Bible know that Jesus was injured in this position, the details of the painting to the cracks on the clothes, which is in line with Leonardo da Vinci's personality, but his clothes are so detailed, so why is there no refraction effect on the crystal ball?
This is an impossible mistake for Leonardo da Vinci, who is proficient in optical research, but Leonardo da Vinci made it, and the crystal ball is also a very important prop in the painting, appearing in the hands of God Jesus. The only explanation is that the mistake that Leonardo da Vinci seems to have made was actually intentional, and a closer look can be found that although nothing is refracted on the crystal ball in Jesus' hand, three white dots inexplicably appear, is the secret hidden in this white dot?
A Belgian astronomer proposed a theory in 1983 that the three largest pyramids in Egypt were the three stars corresponding to the constellation Orion, and now with the advancement of astronomy, this theory has gradually been accepted. In Egyptian culture, the constellation orion has its own unique position, and on the orion belt there are three bright stars called Aru, and in Egyptian legend, people go to this place after death.
The astronomer speculated that the secret that Leonardo da Vinci hid in the crystal ball may be to imply that there is something in these three stars, and if the crystal ball in Jesus' hand is compared to the universe, these three points correspond to the three stars in the constellation Orion.
In Leonardo da Vinci's time, there was not even an astronomical telescope, and how he observed these three stars is also an unsolved mystery. However, lenovo Leonardo da Vinci put forward the heliocentric view long before Copernicus, and it seems that his observation of astronomical astrological signs does have his own set of methods.
Well, to sum up, the Da Vinci code is indeed real in his paintings, but this code is completely different from the Morse code we are familiar with, and if you want to interpret the Da Vinci code, you must reach a certain realm in a certain field to find it, such as the Da Vinci music code mentioned in the video, and the Da Vinci Astronomical code. He may have mastered some key knowledge, but he was afraid that he would be criticized for saying it, or he would be regarded as a heretic, so he decided to tell posterity in an unrighteous way, which was similar to the pushback diagram made by the ancient Chinese prophets Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang.