Secret code of the painting "The Virgin of the Rocks"

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

As we all know the geniuses like Leonardo Da Vinci have created many codes in their paintings, and here is one trick, what this man made. The trick is that using mirrors, what would cut the painting, and then combining those pictures, we can take the brand new image in the front of our eyes. This effect is very interesting, and probably we can imagine, what Leonardo meant when he made this awesome picture.

Above the text is Leonardo's painting "The Virgin of the Rocks" (1495-1508), and actually, this is the London version of that painting, what was painted between years 1495 and 1508. If that painting is watched by technique, where it would make a copy, and then the copy would be mirrored and then those pictures would be combined, there would be the strange image. And somebody sees there a spacecraft, where the passengers would be in the lazy position like in modern spacecraft, but maybe it's only the production of the imagination of the watchers.


Someone think, that there might be an alien in this painting, but there might be something else, and in some thoughts, I have imagined, that maybe Leonardo wanted to introduce an idea of the thinking machine, by using this very special picture. When we are thinking about the life of that man and the conditions, where this impressive painter lives, we must remember that this man was also engineer and anatomist, who had many ideas, what was revolutionize the world. And when we are thinking about codes in his paintings, we must remember, that secrecy of those things like tanks would be very important.

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And maybe Leonardo had strange idea to replace human or monkey's body with armor, and that could make possible to create the thinking machine. When we are talking about this kind of ideas, we must say, that Leonardo was working for his government, and that meant, that this man had the mission to supervise other artists and engineers work and report of the work of those people to officials. That meant there were other people, who also made machines and ideas, and they didn't suspect that painter, what send reports to local princes.


It's possible that this idea, where the human skin was replaced with armor was impressive in his mind. In that time there were many things different than the modern era, and one of them is that there were not strict rules for scientific work. That means, that there were made many experiments, what would take the maker to the jail for rest of the life. And in this perspective, we must say, that even if Leonardo himself were against the violence, there were always people, who had not that kind of opinions. And if those men wanted to replace the human skin with metal, they would make it. In the opinion of other people, that  "thinking machine" could be the very bizarre thing even in the case of Leonardo, and maybe it was hidden in this way because the person who introduced that machine afraid that Leonardo would send to the mental hospital or hanged for that kind of thoughts.


If he tried to combine the machine and the man, would this be "playing the god", and that would cause the death in the hands of inquisition. And Leonardo made many services for the local noblemen, and that's why he must be protected. This might be one reason, why he made many outstanding but somehow rare paintings, what hides codes, what are braked just by the modern cytologists, who have used the most modern technology and methodology to break those codes. But of course, Leonardo might be painted, aliens. But were those bizarre creatures man-made or from outer space? If this man tried to combine human and lizard, would that meant crime against the Catholic church, and that kind of persons were convicted to death immediately. And as we might notice, Leonardo was the notable man, who has given ideas for many things of today.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks

https://youtu.be/NjeZWGy6GDc

Pictures

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The Virgin of the  Rocks

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Picture II

Mirror image of the same painting

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Influence of the medieval period and the world of that time

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In popular culture, we normally see medieval period violent and dangerous time. The term "Dark medieval period" might create by the Protestants, who wanted to destroy Catholic church. And in this light, we must understand that Protestants wanted to increase the Catholic church role as the instrument of power. This instrument was used to destroy the enemies of kings. And in this way of view, this era was the very pressing era, and the burning many persons who wanted to reform that organization gave it very dark reputation. That organization persecuted everybody who wrote anything that was not same opinions, as an officially accepted theological writing involved.


If there would be any conflict with Catholic church and writer, the last one would find himself at the top of the pyre. The women went straight to death because they could be prosecuted by the husband. Only men had rights in that time. The role of women, as they must be quiet, and their husband was talking in the public situation.  This is one way to look that period. The medieval period is quite different than we might expect, and of course, every criminal was not burned on the pyre. At that time were basically the same kind of criminal prosecution and punishment system than today. There was some kind of punishments like today, and the fine, prison and death penalties were used at that time. When we are talking about the inquisition, Dominican monks investigation system, the first punishments for prosecuted people were light.


The most common punishments were tickets, and the reason for this punishment was that was meant for cause hate against that person. This conviction was about the bullseye of the God. This was common version because somebody wrote the things, what were embarrassed for the Catholic church like the position of women and children. But when this person went back to home and tried to pay the price, there would not be any money. They were all taken, and then inquisition claimed that this person was cheapened the justice. And the reason for that must find out. That caused torture and death because the denying to pay the bill was so garish that it caused that penalty, where the person was burned to death.


The inquisition ever executed those people itself, the execution was made the secular authorities, that’s why Inquisition has kept its hands clean. The killing was not suitable for priests and nuns. It was the dirty job that left to sheriffs and soldiers. The medieval time was not full of the wars and despotism. The constitutional state was started to create in that time, and people learned to live even with Inquisition. The same thing was to happen in other fundamentalistic states in the world.


People would learn to live with that kind of system, and the turning to democracy was caused by war. The democratic state can mobilize all of the people, but dictatorship must leave large groups of the armed forces as the security troops, and this was the good argument for democracy if the state’s primary mission was to go to war. This model worked in Prussia, because it looked like more attractive, and gave people the change to take a part in the state leadership.


And this changed the military system that kind of thing, that every person in that state would feel, that they defended something important. But the democracy was far away from the medieval model, where the king was far away from the people. The kings ruled alone, and the people were same, who was their ruler. The unlimited rights of the ruler made the situation, that laws changed when the king changed. And that made the state very unstable.

Sources:

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