Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa's smile

I am halfway through Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and here is what i found about Mona Lisa's smile. Fyi, as stated in the book,"All descriptions of artwork,architecture,documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate".

(this is in my own words la ;))

1) The background behind her face is uneven. The horizon line in the left is painted significantly lower than the right. By lowering it he made her look much larger from the left side than the right.It was said that historically left is the woman side and right is the man side.Because he was a big fan of feminine principles,he made mona lisa look more majestic from the left.

2) Da Vinci was homosexual.He was in tune with the balance between male and female.

3) There are rumours said that mona lisa is a picture of Da Vinci in drag. It is possibly true because according to researches,mona lisa and da vinci's self potret confirms some congruency in their faces.

4)Mona Lisa is neither male nor female. The picture is androgynous. Here is the clue that it is androgynous: The Egyptian god of masculine fertility is named Amon. Amon is represented as a man with a rams head (the horns are related to our modern slang "horny"). The Egyptian Goddess of Fertility is Isis and its ancient pictogram was called L'Isa. So when you put it side by side:

A M O N L'I S A

M O N A L I S A

Her name too is an anagram of both male and female. That is said in the book as Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.

Heheh.Impressive huh?I was awed!

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