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The Last Da Vinci
“My nephew will be back now. It is very difficult for me to compete with him, because he is almost 300 years younger than me! And this means a lot in our profession…”
“Uncle, you are very late with your medieval education… unfinished. Our profession is not for fools! That is why there is some regression… against the backdrop of overall progress, Your Highness.”
from the film “31 June”, episode 1, time 0:19:51.
On April 1, 2018, six months after the Fantastic Week that excited me, I learned about the painting Salvator Mundi (Savior) by Leonardo Da Vinci. I was interested in the fact that the painting was sold in 19 minutes (just under 20 minutes, as they wrote in the news), that it was an image of the Savior, and that the worldwide show for its sale started around mid-October 2017; the painting was sold on November 15, 2017. I was intrigued by the temporary proximity to my Fantastic Week and the fact that it was a male version of Mona Lisa, which was the name of the Belarusian film, the premiere of which I attended in November 1991 and which then radically changed my life (about this is written in the corresponding chapter of my first book 19+.
So actually 2 out of 3 cardinal changes in my life were in one way or another connected with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci:
1991, November, I bought a ticket and went to the premiere of the film “Mona Lisa” by the Belarusian film director Nikolay Studnev. As a result of watching this film, I independently changed my life, left the institute where I had successfully studied to become a programmer and took up theater arts. It is important to note that I had not previously studied any art, and programming and other mathematics and physics were the best that I knew until November 1991.
1996, June 10–14, the “reverse side of the world” opened before me and it was my second life shock, a catastrophe in my relationship with the environment, which began to rewrite my future life.
2017, September 6–10, Fantastic Week occurred and I was forced reconsider my attitude towards life.
Two months and five days later, on November 15, 2017, Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which had suddenly appeared in the art world, was sold at Christie's auction in New York for a record-breaking $450.3 million. At that time, this painting became the most expensive work of art in the world.
But what is the connection between the events of Fantastic Week, and these are supposedly cultural correspondences between the simplest actions of a subject and solar flares, and the appearance in the “everyday world”, and then the sale and subsequent disappearance of this picture?
In fact, the picture and the circumstances of its appearance and sale did not make any impression on me, if it weren't for one "no". I immediately noticed this, and it was this fact that became the reason why I returned to study this picture and the circumstances of it life’s path many times over the course of several years.
I have a similar brown hair color as the character in the painting. At the same time, the color of my hair also changes, it becomes lighter and darker at different periods of my life, in 2021 it is lighter than in the picture. I have the same thin, brittle hair, most of my life it was long, in recent years it began to roll up at the ends into similar “scrolls” as in the picture. I.e. if I wash myself with a good shampoo, then within 2–3 days my hair will be exactly the same as in the picture. Perhaps this hair type is genetically predetermined. I am publishing all this as a joke, of course, “kinship” is purely illusory, fantasy, creative.
The Da Vinci Code was found in the eyes of Mona Lisa (article dated December 14, 2010, in Russian)
https://utro.ru/articles/2010/12/14/943692.shtml
“Art historians saw poorly readable, but clearly man-made symbols in the world-famous painting. It is assumed that with the help of tiny numbers and letters the artist was trying to convey a certain message
Art critics, who have studied the smile, color and expression of Mona Lisa's face far and wide, have reported another sensation: the world-famous portrait contains the original Da Vinci code in the form of tiny numbers and letters.
According to the Daily Mail, they were discovered thanks to modern methods of image enlargement. ‘The symbols are not visible to the naked eye, but under a microscope they are clearly visible,’ says the author of the discovery, President of the Italian National Committee for Cultural Heritage Silvano Vincenti. ‘In the right eye, apparently, are the letters LV, which may well be the initials of Leonardo da Vinci ‘There are also symbols in the left eye, but it is very difficult to identify them – they are either the letters CE or the letter B.’
Symbols are depicted not only in the eyes of the model. ‘In the arch of the bridge in the background you can see the number 72 or the letter L and the number 2,’ says Vincenti, adding: ‘We must remember that the painting is 500 years old, so the symbols have lost their original clarity.’ Nevertheless, the authors of the discovery insist that there can be no mistake: the artist depicted the symbols deliberately.
The Italians looked closely into the eyes of Gioconda after one of the members of the cultural heritage committee discovered a tattered book in a used bookstore that mentioned the symbols in the eyes of the Mona Lisa.
‘Da Vinci paid special attention to the Mona Lisa, and we know that in the last years of his life he took the painting with him everywhere,’ Vincenti emphasizes. ‘We also know that da Vinci was fond of esotericism and used symbols in his work to send messages.’”
The real-life Da Vinci Code: Historians discover tiny numbers and letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa (article from December 12, 2010)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337976/Real-life-Da-Vinci-Code-Tiny-numbers-letters-discovered-Mona-Lisa.html
Myths about Da Vinci (link in Russian)
https://dzen.ru/a/YHRG4Mo3u2cR9-59
“Da Vinci does not refer to the inventor's surname, but to the name of the area in which he was born. Vinci is a small town near Florence. Now there is a museum dedicated to Leonardo.
The portrait of Mona Lisa is almost 100% a portrait of the artist’s mother; the first version of the painting, which he had given away for debts, was found; so it becomes clear why he fussed over this work ‘like a hen over an egg’.
Read Vasari and Walter Isaacson! Everything there is told about Mona Lisa and about her mother.”
(Caution, emotional video! I noticed that each person is shown individually, in turn, and they are probably standing together. In cases where several people are shown at the same time, it feels like they are watching completely independently, individually).
The Last da Vinci: The World is Watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7omwQLuGJQ
7 things to know about Leonardo's Salvatore Mundi, His Holy Mona Lisa (link in Russian)
https://tanjand.livejournal.com/2219469.html
“Renaissance art historian Martin Kemp had goosebumps. ‘It was very clear,’ Kemp said. ‘Mona Lisa is present.’ So after that initial reaction, you look at the painting and you think the writing on the better preserved details like the hair etc. is just incredibly good. This is such a supernatural whirlwind, as if the hair is a living, moving substance or water, as Leonardo painted hair. <…>
‘Salvator Mundi is a painting of the most iconic figure in the world, the most important artist of all time,’ says Loic Gouzer, Chairman Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s.
… Leonardo's work is as influential in the art that is created today as it was in the 15th and 16th centuries. We felt that offering this painting in the context of our post-war and contemporary evening sale was a testament to the painting's enduring relevance.”
Salvator Mundi (link in Russian)
https://artchive.ru/leonardodavinci/works/473095~Spasitel'_Mira_Sal'vator_Mundi
“Jesus with brown locks gazes intently at the viewer. In his left hand rests a crystal sphere, and his right is raised in a gesture of blessing. According to Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford, ‘The Savior literally holds in the palm of his hand the welfare of the world and its inhabitants.’ At the same time, Leonardo clearly represents the Redeemer not as a deity, but as a man – which is extremely unusual for that time – without a crown or halo.”
In the Good Omens series, a painting resembling the Mona Lisa, but done as a sepia pencil sketch, hangs behind demon Crowley's throne. By the way, it was behind this painting in the demon’s house that there was a safe in which the most powerful and valuable weapon he had was stored – Holy Water. Below are all the appearances of this painting in the mini-series:
Episode 2, time 2:53,
The demon Crowley enters his apartment, the picture is shown to the viewer several times.
Episode 2, time 3:29,
On one side from the chair, on the screen the servants of the Devil give him instructions on the upcoming work, on the other side there is a picture hanging on the wall, balancing the overall frame of the film with a bright light spot. The screen with the servants goes dark. Next, Crowley says a significant phrase (time 3:53):
“I didn’t want to fall, I just found myself in bad company.”
(Sounds like a teenager “explaining” to an adult).
Why did the demon Crowley choose this painting for his office? Undoubtedly, it personifies the maternal principle. This painting is constantly behind him when he sits in his throne-chair. Naturally, the creators of the series ironically play up the fate of the real painting:
“Before his death, Leonardo sold the painting to the French king Francis I, who hung it in his bathhouse. Not because he didn’t appreciate it – the bathhouse served for him as a kind of office, where he decided, among other things, issues of national importance. Then it was in the Louvre, where the public could see her, then it was in the bedroom of Napoleon Bonaparte.”
Episode 2, time 21:18,
“Get to work!”
“It’s simple: deliver the Antichrist, keep an eye on him.” Nothing complicated. No demon can fail this!”
Episode 2, time 52:16,
“Any news? Have you found the Antichrist?
Episode 4, time 8:58,
“I was just asking questions. This was enough to become a demon.”
Episode 4, time 9:17,
“Why destroy them?”
At the top of the frame, the edge of a painting appears on the wall behind the demon's throne. The picture grows, going down the frame from top to bottom.
“Why the End of the World?”
The picture is completely visible. Crowley hits the floating globe with his hand, the globe flies away and immediately returns.
Episode 4, time 34:48,
Demon Crowley moves the painting aside, opens the safe and takes a thermos of Holy water; after a few seconds he carries a bucket of water beside the painting.
March 20, 2021, in the morning at 11:00 am, once again (I usually open and study stuff on the Internet every few months, in the hope that I will dig up something new), I became interested in Leonard Da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa and I watched several videos about it.
The videos were mainly about “secret signs”, supposedly the initials “LV” in Gioconda's right eye and the number “72” on the bridge over the river. It immediately seemed to me that “72” was very similar to “73”, if we accept the underdrawing or damage to the number “3” at the bottom, because the second digit was half the height of the first, and it seemed to be “missing” the lower part.
It should also be said that my initials “LV” in Latin, correspond to the initials in the painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. And 1972 is the year of my conception, I was born in 1973. For some reason, in this case it is the date of conception that is interesting, more about this in one of the last chapters of this book.
According to information on the Internet, these facts were extolled as “Da Vinci’s secret”, “an encrypted code”, they were “opened” at the end of 2010. And then an obvious “solution” was given—that the initials should belong to Leonardo Da Vinci (and who else?!), and 72 is the year of the destruction of a certain bridge in 1472.
(Opened November 25, 2021 at 12:34 pm).
La Gioconda Bridge (link in Russian)
http://www.biancoloto.com/ponte-buriano-gioconda.html
“It is believed that the painting depicts the Buriano Bridge [Ponte Buriano], built over the Arno, a few kilometers from Arezzo (Tuscany).
Leonardo painted the same bridge in the painting “Madonna of the Yarnwinder” (1501, lost), it is located on the right side of St. Mary.”
Another source (in Russian) writes: “The Trebbia River flowing past Bobbio overflowed its banks and demolished the old bridge”.
https://www.fontanka.ru/2011/01/10/023/
The path of the Mona Lisa (link in Russian)
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26974.3/4029268/
“Francesco del Giocondo, who ordered the portrait of Leonardo da Vinci’s wife, never received it into his own: apparently, the artist worked on it for about three years, and then took it with him and improved it almost until his death.”
(link in Russian)
https://www.factroom.ru/izvestnye-lyudi/hudozhniki/leonardo-da-vinchi/leonardo-da-vinchi-vsyudu-vozil-monu-lizu-s-soboj
“The painting Mona Lisa had special value for its author, Leonardo da Vinci. Work on it went on for 16 years. The artist did not part with the painting until his death, transporting it on mules during his journey from Florence to Milan, Rome, and finally to France.”
(Opened on July 27, 2022 at 5:32 pm, link in Russian)
All the secrets of Mona Lisa
https://masterok.livejournal.com/6151598.html
“Almost nothing is known about Leonardo’s mother. But, indeed, there is an opinion that the artist, separated from his mother in early childhood, tried all his life to recreate the image and smile of his mother in his paintings.
However, the theory that the Mona Lisa is an icon where an earthly woman took the place of the Mother of God is popular in its own right. This is the genius of the work and therefore it has become a symbol of the beginning of a new era in art.
There is also an interesting version by Valery Chudinov, who discovered in the Mona Lisa the words Yara Mara – the name of the Russian pagan goddess.
Leonardo is the creator of 3D.
This combination was achieved using a special technique invented by Leonardo – ‘sfumato’ (from Italian – ‘disappearing like smoke’). It was this painting technique, when paints are applied layer by layer, that allowed Leonardo to create an aerial perspective in the painting. The artist applied countless layers of these, and each one was almost transparent. Thanks to this technique, light is reflected and scattered differently across the canvas, depending on the viewing angle and the angle of incidence of the light. That’s why the model’s facial expression is constantly changing.
The Mona Lisa is the first 3D painting in history, researchers conclude. Another technical breakthrough by a genius who foresaw and tried to implement many inventions.”
This is how it turns out to be the simplest riddles that anyone can solve in a second. It is obvious!
But if we assume that these are really hidden secrets and some kind of code, then what is the best way to package the information so that only a certain person can “guess” it? The best option is to give all other clue seekers a simple, uncomplicated and obvious answer, and for this the artist must have exactly these initials and in 1472 the bridge was to be destroyed. That is, in order to influence the future, the bridge to the past is destroyed! Naturally, all these associations are far-fetched by me, these are just my current thoughts.
And it’s also important how to preserve information from damage if it needs to pass through hundreds of years? Of course, even if it is slightly damaged, but is obviously associated with other objects and events, the human imagination will “complete” the lost part. Thus, in order for the number 72 to certainly reach, even with some damage, it is drawn on the image of a bridge that was washed away by water and destroyed in 1472. And the initials found must undoubtedly correspond to the artist’s initials, and even if they are slightly damaged, our imagination will complete them in the predicted direction in accordance with culturally imposed stereotypes.
I perceive this as the superimposition of the plane of fiction onto the physical plane. That is, events on the real plane are coordinated through cultural associations with a person’s internal experiences.
A little bit of the Good Omens series, for fans.
Episode 5, time 38:00,
“Hello. Mister… Pulzifer? I have the peculiar honour of bringing you and Mrs Pulsifer a small bequest.”
“There isn’t any Mrs Pulsifer. I mean, there’s my mum, but she’s in Dorking.”
“How odd. The letter is quite specific. Can I come in?”
(enters the room, puts the box on the table)
“Coffee?”
“I mustn’t. To be honest, we’re all very interested in this. Mr Bychance nearly came down himself, but he doesn’t travel well these days.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about”.
“The bequest. It’s what’s in the box. With the letter.” (Anathema peeks out from behind the door.) “My firm has had it for over 300 years. I don’t know the full details because I joined the firm only fifteen years ago, but.”
Episode 5, time 38:48,
(Transition to the historical past. Knock on the door.)
“Master Robey? This is for you, from my mother. And this, with it, for safekeeping.”
(voice-over) “The letter contained a gold coin, certain instructions and five interesting facts about the next ten years which would ensure that he was able to pursue a very successful legal career. All he had to do in return was see that the box was carefully looked after for rather more than three hundred years, and then be delivered… here on this particular Sunday morning.”
(Transition to our time.)
“And, um . . . Well, here it is.”
(Anathema has come downstairs. Newt has finished opening the box that the thing was in. It’s an ancient metal box.)
“It’s from Agnes.”
“Are you sure?”
“I recognise the style.”
In my life, everything connected with the image of the Mona Lisa refers to illusory, emotional experiences, and they are in no way connected with Leonardo, or with painting, and especially not with the image of the Savior. Naturally, all these experiences were mainly associated with the married couple Nikolay and Liliya Studnev, whom I treated more like parents. At the time of our meeting, they were 20 years older than me.
I have a cold, distant attitude towards religions. But even if I am not interested in Religion, it may well be interested in me. And my task is to escape from this dangerous situation with minimal losses.
“We don’t have electricity in Perador. When darkness falls, torches are lit. This is also beautiful. True, they smoke.”
“I understand… Of course, torches… You live in the 13th century.”
“In the twelfth… But at the very end of the 12th, what century do you live in?”
“In the twenty-first, but at the very beginning!”
“It’s good that at the beginning… it’s still closer.”
from the film “31 June”, episode 1, time 1:01:30.
Agree, it is completely unrealistic to look for the initials of a person from the 21st century in paintings from the 15th century. After all, it was “put into the head of any schoolchild” that people of the 15th century lived and left their initials in the 15th century, and people of the 21st century lived in the 21st century, and nothing else.
Further – more, continuing to analyze the name Rybolovlev (“Fisherman” in English), and for me this is a direct association with the character, “catcher of fish and human souls” two thousand years ago, I came across a Gift, lost in the past, or even my Attribute.
Two Cathedrals and Three Bridges
“Don't be afraid, I won't disappear now. You know, you can ask Merlin only once in your life… I asked to take me across the Star Bridge.”
from the film “31 June”, episode 2, time 1:00:24.
“’ Carthage must be destroyed ’ (Carthaginem esse delendam)—in a figurative sense, this is what they say about an obsession to which they return regardless of the topic of conversation, about the determination to radically deal with a real or imaginary problem. This catchphrase originated in Ancient Rome. It was said that Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder) ended any of his speeches in the Roman Senate with the words: ‘And besides, I affirm that Carthage must be destroyed’. The Carthaginian state was a longtime enemy of Rome. After two Roman victories in the wars with the Carthaginians, the city continued to exist and flourished, and this haunted many.
The senator argued his call by saying that the concluded peace treaty does not guarantee Rome that Carthage, having recovered after the war, will not violate the truce, as it did after the first conflict, and will not begin new attacks on Roman conquests.”
Bridge in the painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
The bridge that “must have” been destroyed in 1472.
Star Bridge, song from the film 31 June , episode 1, time 0:28:22
Sung by Tatyana Antsiferova, music by Aleksandr Zatsepin, lyrics by Leonid Derbenyov, 1978.
“We are with you, among the stars and darkness,
They found each other in unimaginable distances.
So that the Milky Way, someday,
Became the eternal path of love.”
Bridge in the song God of the Damned by the group Bi-2
Premiere of the song and video: November 25, 2020.
“God will come to save
All the damned, damned
To build bridges
Over the abyss, over the abyss.”
Two cathedrals
“Religion” means “reconnection”. My knowledge in this area is mainly based on adventure films about “crusades” and “secrets that catholics hide”. A kind of romanticized attitude that is fueled by adventurous works of art, but does not directly affect me. June 20, 2022 at 4:52 pm I found on the Internet the closest relation to this topic for me:
About the evidence for the existence of God (link in Russian)
https://maxpark.com/community/7300/content/7216297
“Kant was an atheist, but he did not deny the existence of God. He said that in any case you need to live as if he exists. After all, it is faith that awakens in a person the desire to act according to his conscience and experience empathy for the world around him.
Kant said that knowledge about the divine nature of existence is inherent in every person, as a basic program; we are already born with this knowledge. And if the Almighty exists, then we feel the signs of his existence deep inside, on an intuitive level.
‘The starry sky above our heads and the moral law within us fill the mind with ever-new and growing admiration and awe, the more often and more persistently we reflect on it,’ said Kant.”
Kant vs Nietzsche: order versus chaos. One-man show (link in Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmtH4mSAciY
When I walked past the Cathedral of Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg in October and November 2019, a sudden “sadness came over me”, so much so that I suddenly burst into tears. It was very unexpected, I walked further, then turned to look at the cathedral one last time… and burst into tears again.
Then I walked past this cathedral several more times over the course of two months, and every time I looked at it, I was overwhelmed with emotions. It was some kind of miracle.
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg (link in Russian)
https://peterburg.center/maps/kafedralnyy-sobor-svyatyh-petra-i-pavla-v-sankt-peterburge.html
“Address: Nevsky Avenue, 22–24. Denomination: Union of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Parish rector: 54-year-old German Michael Schwarzkopf, a former programmer.”
A few months later I read on the Internet:
The 15th-century Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul caught fire in France (article dated July 18, 2020, in Russian)
https://ria.ru/20200718/1574526629.html
“In the city of Nantes in western France, the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul caught fire, BFMTV reported, citing the fire and rescue operations center.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire started around 7:30 am local time (8:30 am Moscow time) [July 18, 2020]. Firefighters headed to the scene. The causes of the fire have not yet been announced.
Director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Services Laurent Ferlet said that more than a hundred firefighters and 45 fire engines are taking part in the firefighting effort. The fire was contained around 10:00 am local time.
According to Nantes prosecutor Pierre Seine, it could have been a deliberate arson – three fires were found in the cathedral.
‘One is at the level of the large organ and two hearths to the right and left of the nave,’ the TV channel quotes him as saying.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Nantes is one of the largest Gothic churches in France. It is six meters lower in height than Notre Dame Cathedral. Construction of the temple began in the 15th century, construction lasted 457 years. It was consecrated in December 1891.
French President Emmanuel Macron: ‘After Notre Dame, fire engulfed the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in the heart of Nantes. I express my support to our firefighters, who are taking all the necessary risks to save this example of Gothic art,’ the head of state wrote.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the construction of which began in the 15th century and was completed at the end of the 19th, is one of the most important Gothic monuments in Brittany and France. In 1972, there was already a major fire there—the roof of the cathedral completely burned down, it was closed for repairs for three years.”
The previous fire in the cathedral in Nantes was in 1972.
Naturally, these were different cathedrals, one in Nantes, the other in St. Petersburg, but what they had in common was the name.
I was struck by how emotional my reaction to the cathedral in St. Petersburg was. The building of the cathedral in St. Petersburg was somewhat reminiscent of Notre Dame de Paris, but I had practically no emotions towards the burning Notre Dame, perhaps because I did not see it directly.
My feelings towards the cathedral in St. Petersburg were completely unrealistic. Of course, any person sometimes experiences strong emotions, but almost always these emotions happen to him in a closed, intimate space. Such emotions, but arising practically out of nowhere and in open space, are a rare occurrence for me. On the other hand, these unexpected emotions enriched me.
I'll add a bit of conspiracy theory – simultaneously with the fire in Notre Dame (where, by the way, the Crown of Thorns was kept), a fire broke out on the roof of one of the prayer rooms of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. According to legend, this mosque is located on the site of the First Temple, where some of the events of the New Testament took place.
