Hi There,
I found this mail when I was taking a look in my mailbox. I had sent this mail to my elder brother Vishal, when he had visited Paris. I wanted him to visit Lovre Musium and see the greatest artworks this world has ever seen. Here it is that mail as it is, without any changes...Please take notice that that the matter in this mail is not compltely written by me. I've gathered this information from various sources but most of the matter is from the book "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
Dear Vishal Bhau,
I'm writing such a huge mail specially because u r going to Paris to see the work of one of the most genius people this world has seen. Yes I'm talking about Leonardo Da Vinci. He was the only man who could write with his one hand while drawing with the other at the same time. He also could write in reverse. I mean to read his notations u would have to see them in mirror, or else his text would look like some other language to u.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took custody of the little fellow shortly after his birth, while his mother married someone else and moved to a neighboring town. They kept on having kids, although not with each other, and they eventually supplied him with a total of 17 half sisters and brothers.
You'll be seeing lots of drawing by this great man but most beautiful and famous paintings of his are Monalisa, Madonna of the Rocks, The Vitruvian man, Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper (The most controversial of them all). His drawings inspired lots of scientists around the globe to invent some amazing machines which were already created in this great masters imagination. Those scientists only brought those inventions in physical form.
* THE VITRUVIAN MAN
You have seen this painting many times on TV but u just don't know that it is called "The Vitruvian Man". This painting has a man with his arms stretched out and the tips of his hands and feet are touching the perfect circle drawn around him.
"The Vitruvian man" is considered the most anatomically correct drawing of it's day. The First thing you'll notice is that this man is standing in a form of a pentacle (The pentacle is an ancient Pagan symbol and pagan is ancient religion which believed in nature worship. I can tell u a lot about the Pagan religion and it's symbolism but it's a long story and I believe we're discussing Leonardo Da Vinci here). U can see the PENATACLE symbol by pressing "SHIFT + 8" on your keyboard.
I think u must tell u about the pagans and their pentacle in more detail. Well, The pagans lived in rural villages. The Christian church feared them and gave a new meaning to word "villain" - a wicked soul. Which actually means those who live in 'ville' - villager. It's a misconception that Pagan is Devil worship. The pentacle had been in use since 4000 years before Christ. Pentacle also symbolizes Venus - "the goddess of female sexual love and beauty". Planet Venus traces perfect pentacle across the elliptic sky every eight years. (It was observed by our ancient people.) Venus and her pentacle became the symbols of perfection, beauty and cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her eight year cycle to organize their Olympic games. Now a days four year schedule of modern Olympics still follow the half cycle of Venus. Five pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment. It's five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony. The pentacle was altered by the early roman catholic church as a part of Vatican’s campaign to eradicate pagan religion and convert the masses to Christianity. The church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil. You'll notice that Leonardo has drawn some lines at the elbow, shoulders, knees etc. Those lines signify proportions in human body which can be found not only in human body but everywhere around us. Remember the number 1.618 and the proportion 1:1.618 is the fundamental building block on nature. This number is also known as PHI which we use in our mathematical equations. Here are some examples ->
Take "The Vitruvian Man" for example. If u divide the length of belly to toe by the length of head to belly, u'll get the proportion 1:1.618 or PHI. This proportion can be found in arm to forearm and divisions of our fingers as well.
The female bees always outnumber the male bees in honeybee community. If u divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees in any beehive in the world u'll always get the number 1.618. PHI.
In Nautilus (a spiral seashell) the ratio of each spiral's diameter to the next is always the same. yes u guessed it right, the divine proportion 1:1.618 or Phi. (pronounced as Fye).
Leonardo named this particular painting of his as "The Vitruvian man" for MARCUS VITRUVIUS. Marcus Vitruvius was a brilliant architecture who prized the divine proportion in his book 'DE ARCHITECTURA'.
Nobody understood better than Da Vinci, the divine structure of human body. Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure. He was the first to show that the human body is literally made of building blocks whose proportional ratios always equal PHI.
FOR MORE INFO ON THE PHI I'M ATTACHING A PDF FILE WHICH IS COMPILED BY ME.
*CAN U SEE HOW FAR ONLY ONE PAINTING FROM THIS MASTER CAN TAKE U? AND HOW MUCH IT CAN TELL U? THAT'S THE MAGIC OF THE GREAT LEONARDO DA VINCI*. I wish u could carry my vision to see the masterpieces by this artist.
Monalisa
Before I tell u anything about Monalisa let me explain to u what an Anagram is. Anagram is any word derived from the original word by simply re-arranging the letters in random but meaning full order. Example . Anagram of MAD can be DAM. Anagram of "Osama bin laden" can be "Abdominal Sane" or "old man in basement", anagram of "Leonardo da Vinci" can be "And a divine color" if observed carefully, the name Monalisa can be broken down into two parts mona and lisa. And Mona is an anagram of amon. Amon is an Egyptian god of masculine fertility. Amon is indeed represented as a man with a ram's head, and his promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang HORNY.
Amon's counterpart was Isis - The female goddess. Whose ancient pictogram was once called L'isa. So we have AMON LISA -> MONA LISA. Not only does the face of Monalisa looks androgynous but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that is a Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Monalisa's knowing smile.
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Madonna of the Rocks, Virgin of the Rocks
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The masterpiece "Madonna of the Rocks" is a five foot tall canvas painting (which u won't get to see). The bizarre scene Da Vinci had painted included an awkwardly posed virgin Mary sitting with baby Jesus, john the Baptist and the angel uriel on a perilous outcropping of rocks. The painting was filled with explosive and disturbing details.
The painting showed a blue-robed virgin Mary sitting with her arms around an infant child, presumably baby Jesus. Opposite Mary say uriel, also with an infant, presumably baby john the Baptist. Oddly, though, rather than the usual Jesus blessing john scenario, it was baby john who was blessing Jesus and Jesus was submitting to his authority. More troubling still, Mary was holding one hand high above the head of infant john and making a decidedly threatening gesture - her fingers looking like eagle's talons, gripping an invisible head. Finally, the most obvious and frightening image, just below Mary's curled fingers, Uriel was making a cutting gesture with his hand as if slicing the neck of the invisible head gripped by Mary's claw-like hand.
Da Vinci eventually mollified the confraternity by painting them a second, "watered down" version of the Madonna of the rocks in which everyone was arranged in a more orthodox manner. The second version now hung in London's National gallery under the name "Virgin of the Rocks".
The Last Supper
This is the most controversial painting of them all. But I'm not gonna tell u the secret behind this painting. U might have had heard of it from me in the past. Well, keep in mind only one thing that this painting is about Jesus having a meal with his 12 followers. The 12 men who walked on the path Jesus showed. Who did just what Jesus had foreseen. I don't think u'll get to see this painting b'coz it's not a painting on a canvas but on a wall of the church - 'Santa Maria delle Grazie' in Milan. But anyways, I'll tell about this painting when u'll be home.
HERE IS SOMETHING U SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PARIS
Long before the establishment of Greenwich as the prime Meridian, the Zero longitude of the entire world had passed directly through Paris, and through the church of Saint Sulpice. If u get a chance to visit Saint Sulpice then please observe everything u see in there. The brass marker in Saint Sulpice was a memorial to the world's first Prime Meridian, and although Greenwich had stripped Paris of the honor in 1988, The original Rose line is still visible today. Paris has around 135 Bronze medallions embedded in the ground. Each disk is five inches in diameter and is embossed with the letters N & S. The line these medallions make is known as RoseLine, world's very first Prime Meridian. U must take a picture of these medallions if u see them.
