| Leonardo da Vinci's personal assistant, Salaino, unveils some of the secrets hidden in the Last Supper and in the Mona Lisa. According to Salaino, a Cydonia face lies hidden in the portrait of the Mona Lisa. A sort of stereographic sfumato reveals the true identity of the mysterious woman. Leonardo knew the art of anamorphosis, where images are hidden within images. The second of Salaino's disclosures pertains to the room used by Leonardo as a model to host his Last Supper. The room actually exists in the countryside of Florence. It belongs to a Renaissance villa formerly owned by the Machiavelli family. It is known that Leonardo and Machiavelli were friends. Last but not least, Salaino explains why a huge door was rammed into the wall of the Grazie refectory, in Milan, where Leonardo painted his famous Supper. The pretext for such a vandalic act was that the monks had to be granted access to the kitchen. An old map shows that a door already existed for that purpose, and therefore there was no logical reason for damaging the mural. Apparently, the monks had found themselves in the necessity of destroying an inconvenient detail. As they would gather daily for their own suppers, they had to be staring at the heretical hint of Jesus and Mary's feet crossing under the table in loving complicity. Watch the video promo for the Ebook Salaino's Lost Leonardo, by Elena Defendenti Minari: Available for the iPad on the iBookstore, and for the Kindle on Amazon UPDATE - JULY 2011 NOW ... |
