Leonardo is well known to have been an extraordinary genius. It seems incredible, though, that he may still amaze us five centuries after his death. The hidden meanings of Leonardo’s paintings have been discussed over and over again, not least recently – above all The Last Supper. Some have said the figure sitting to the right of Jesus Christ is not St John but rather Mary Magdalene; stories have been made up about V- or M-shapes emerging from the arrangements of the figures’ bodies, and the colours have been endowed with a number of mysterious meanings. More or less anything has been said, but real evidence has never been submitted actually. Until today, as the time for pseudo-historical or pseudo-religious esoteric philosophising is finally over, and neat graphic signs replace empty talking. The recent new exciting findings are no daydream but rather come from careful analysis of the paintings, a set of objective data. Just take The Last Supper, indeed: turn it upside down and place this image on the original one. What then? Easy, there appears an altogether new painting. read more

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