Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ
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CHAPTER ONE: THE SECRET CODE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI
It is one of the most famous - and enduring - works of art in the world. Leonardo da Vinci's fresco The Last Supper is the one surviving piece of the original church of Santa Maria delle Grazie near Milan, being on the only wall that remained standing after Allied bombing reduced the rest of the building to rubble in the Second World War. Although many other admired artists such as Ghirlandaio, and Nicolas Poussin - even such an idiosyncratic painter as Salvador Dali - have also given the world their version of this significant biblical scene, it is Leonardo's which has, for some reason, captured the imagination more than most. Versions of it are seen everywhere, encompassing both ends of the spectrum of taste, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Some images may be so familiar that they are never truly examined, and although they lie openly before the viewer's gaze and invite closer scrutiny, at their most profound and meaningful level they actually remain totally closed books. So it is with Leonardo's Last Supper - and, ... read full excerpt from: The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ ebook