Comments on: Hidden Music in da Vinci's The Last Supper

By: James Sellers

James Sellers — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:34 +0000

Honestly, is it a possibility that it was put in there? Yes. Is it wrong for people to see that it could be real? No. As a composer and arranger myself, I think the real problem is with the people who say "it's all crap" in some form or another. Even if the musical notes aren't really there, musicians see music everywhere. Are you going to say I'm crap and call BS on me if I write a piece of music based on the shape of a circle? Or say I'm retarded and should be killed because I compose a piece of music based on the patterns I perceive coming from a waterfall? No. So, a guy saw the bread as music. It's no different from those painters who splatter paint on a canvas, and then step back and go "huh...I just got an idea for a painting using this to start". It's something pre-existing that someone is looking at it from a different vantage point. And it's not the generally accepted vantage point, so everybody claims controversy. No, he's just looking at it from a musical perspective. And besides, da Vinci played the Lute and put music into all his works. They are all forms of art.

By: Kevinboylan1989

Kevinboylan1989 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:16:49 +0000

Thank you monkeyme, as a painter myself there is no limit to the amount of insight that can go into a painting. This isnt a rock formation that looks like an alein or a peice of toast with the face of christ on ebay, this is a well thought out and lengthy compostion by possibly one of the greatest painters and scientist of all time. The cream of the crop of great thinkers. Come on they had music back then, they knew how to write it how much thought does it really take to combined trades? Look him up sometime, he was a scholar, a scientist and a Musician. haha, just accept the fact that your not the only insightful person on planet earth.

By: Monkeyme

Monkeyme — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:53:01 +0000

Sheesh. All these haters don't realize that painters back in the day put a LOT of hidden messages in their paintings. This isn't that far-fetched, sorry to tell you.

By: R.Chao

R.Chao — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:45:58 +0000

Is the biggest nosense of the year. Bof.

By: skh.pcola

skh.pcola — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:27:23 +0000

Total bullshit. "Since the Apostles were grouped in threes, I consulted the periodic table and discovered that the painting held the secrets to molecular immortality." WTF ever. Total bullshit.

By: ben

ben — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:05:46 +0000

And if you connect all the freckles on my belly, it spells out "give me a break."

By: dodgyd55

dodgyd55 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:18:51 +0000

(sigh) yet another "last supper"

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:38:21 +0000

I always love these things. Patterns and goodies where they may or may not be.

By: Kang and Kodos

Kang and Kodos — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:59:58 +0000

Puny Earthlings! Looking for meaning where there is none! Muhahahaha!

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:44:08 +0000

True Jerry.

By: Carl Huber

Carl Huber — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:34:33 +0000

Well since I was referencing the book called "The Da Vinci Code" I think it was pretty accurate

The book title may be inaccurate, but my citation wasn't.

By: natalie

natalie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:27:55 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci.
or Leonardo.

Not da Vinci.

By: Carl Huber

Carl Huber — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:19:45 +0000

What if someone just said "hey, those stones on the sidewalk are braille for the word Chupacabra!"
You wouldn't be calling them horrible things.
Can't you just appreciate the creativity to notice the coincidence?
I mean, I agree, that whole thing is a little daVinci Code, but it's harmless, and neat.

By: John J.

John J. — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:45:52 +0000

And if you look at it upside down it is a message from the drug company Merck and it says - Vioxx is a killer.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:26:59 +0000

Oh..poor humans...

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:31:10 +0000

After the big bro-ha-ha over the photos of the "Face On Mars", you'd think they'd begin to understand that: People are hardwired to see PATTERNS even where they DON'T exist....

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:25:35 +0000

It also contains a map to where Hoffa's body is buried.

By: dotdotdot

dotdotdot — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:33:46 +0000

I have lost a lot of respect for discovery channel after watching that.

And by the way, that looks nothing like a chalice.