It's pretty cool when you find an Easter egg
on a Blu ray or hidden within a movie,
but it's even more fascinating when you
uncover mysterious messages buried
in famous works of art.
Some of the secrets on our list remained
undiscovered for over half a millennia
Including a hidden musical score,
A mysterious object floating in the sky,
And one famous composer's tribute to a
clandestine worldwide organization.
Here is our list of the top seven secrets
hidden in famous art works.
Number 7: The secret of The Last Supper
Leonardo DaVinci was a man of many talents.
He was an Inventor, Architect, Scientist, Sculptor and of course an Artist.
But there's one more talent,
DaVinci is known for which may have been hidden in one of his most famous works
The Last Supper and that talent was music.
In 2003 Giovanni Maria Paula
Discovered that if you draw lines of Musical staff across the painting,
to correspond with the positions of the hands of the Apostles and loaves of bread,
you uncover a melody that had remained secret for over 500 years.
At first the music didn't make any sense
but after remembering that Leonardo wrote music right to left,
Giovanni reversed the score.
You see, Leonardo wasn't the only one who could hide things in great art.
6: The secret diagram
Michelangelo's the Creation of Adam is one of the most iconic images in human
history, depicting the book of Genesis scene where God breathed life into Adam
through his fingers
obviously because a painting of the Lord Almighty going mouth to mouth with Adam
may have been a little risque for the walls of the Sistine Chapel. But in 1990,
an american physician, Dr. Frank Meshberger, noticed something familiar about
the area surrounding god. What is that weird shape that the Lord seems to be
crowd surfing out from? Meshberger noticed that the border of the area
behind God corresponds precisely with a side profile cross section of the human
brain.
Here's the pituitary gland, the frontal lobe, the vertebral artery, the spinal
cord, the pons, the Sylvian fissure, and the brain stem and if you need further
evidence, then consider the fact that at the age of 17, Michelangelo was a passionate anatomy
student who dissected corpses from his local church graveyard to study and that
alone will get you on some sort of watch list
so maybe don't judge that kid in your class who likes to play with roadkill
because he could be the world's next great artist.
In at 5: Evidence of ancient aliens?
Take a look at this image of Dominical
Gillan Diyos painting "The Madonna with Saint giovannino" and see what catches
your eye immediately;
is it the attractive lady in the center perhaps it's the baby with the low-slung
slacks trying to give her a high five
while the other angel baby checks out his Jillian Michaels physique, that kid
is more ripped than I'll ever be,
or maybe the first thing you noticed was the strange object hovering in the sky
and the dude below it wondering what the heck it is.
There are a number of paintings which depict unidentified flying objects in
the sky but geelen deals is one of the most startling due to its prominence in
the reaction of the guy on the right.
He's looking at a disc-shaped object which seems to be shining brightly while
stepped out in a strange array of Spears,
what on earth was Gil and I Oh trying to show us
or maybe Earth isn't the proper word to use .
Number 4: A message for the Pope.
this is Michelangelo's "The Prophet Zechariah" and it was painted in the
Sistine Chapel in 1512 during the reign of Pope Julius the second. Now to say
Pope Julius wasn't everybody's favorite is a bit like saying people thought the
new Ghostbusters 3 trailer looked a little crappy. Julius the second was
known as "papa terrible" and you can translate that for yourself but
Michelangelo wasn't a fan either
and it's believed that he painted Zechariah in a way that closely
resembles Pope Julius.
Now that's not particularly insulting is it, sounds like quite a nice gesture
actually until you realize one of the two babies sat behind Zechariah is
making a little gesture of its own.
See the thumb poking out between the middle and index fingers, well the Pope didn't
and nor did the Vatican due to it being placed so high up in the chapel
but if they had they would have seen a little baby making a gesture known as
the fig which is an ancient way of saying and let me get this translation right,
*clearing throat*
"A f***a you."
3: Mona Lisa's secret.
So we already know that Leonardo DaVinci likes to hide
musical scores in his work but what secrets could possibly remain hidden in
the Mona Lisa, one of the world's most famous pictures of someone being forced
to smile on picture day.
Many theories have been thrown around regarding the layout of the picture, such
as the idea that Mona Lisa was pregnant due to the arrangement of her hands, that
she may have been a prostitute due to her lack of facial hair and when the
image was analyzed by a doctor he noticed the Mona Lisa may have been
suffering from a tumor in her right eye,
a tumor davinci clearly must have noticed so did he tell her?
And that's not the end of it because there's even more to this picture than
meets the eye
literally, by magnifying her right eye you'll see the letters "LV" appear
probably a signature but the left eye shows "CE"
so whose signature is that? On the bridges arch there's the number 72 and
beneath the painting itself the number 149 is hidden away.
We are able to view to Vinci's previous attempts at the painting through layer
amplification technology
which is how we know about the number 149 and also how we know there's a whole
other painting of a completely different woman underneath.
So who is she and what do all those letters and numbers mean?
Davinci, not the type of guy to put those things there for no reason
so if we don't know yet probably going to take us another 500 years to figure that one out.
2: The purial portrait of a president.
This is a portrait of former President Bill Clinton which hangs in the
Smithsonian Natural portrait gallery and its artists Nelson shanks has admitted
that hidden within the painting is a reference to one of the most shocking
moments of Clinton's presidency. See the dark shadow on the mantle of the oval
office just over bill clinton's right shoulder,
this shadow came from a mannequin which shank snuck into the Oval Office whilst
painting the backdrop
when Bill Clinton wasn't there, the mannequin was covered with a blue dress
similar to the one worn by monica lewinsky when she most famously helped the
president find his lost contact lens over and over and over.
And Shanks claims that this shadow is a metaphor for the stained legacy of
Clinton's time in the Oval Office.
Makes you wonder which other famous presidential portraits of secrets hidden
within them.
Does Theodore Roosevelt have a teddy bear in his pocket or is he just happy to see you?
And at number one, the mysterious musical maestro.
This is a painting of classical composer wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was just
6 years old
The painting was created by Pietro Antonio lorenzoni in 1763 but did you
know that the way Mozart is depicted hints at his membership of the world's
most secretive Society the mysterious Freemasons.
It is well known that Mozart became a Freemason later in life but does this
painting indicate his involvement from a much earlier age? A hand hidden within
the shirt or jacket pocket is believed to be an indication of one's dedication
to the Masonic cause and whilst many of his later works do allude to his
devotion to Freemasonry, it would be quite shocking if he had been
indoctrinated from the age of 6... Oh wait, hang on,
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