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What about the Secret of the Mona Lisa?
Posted by CCC CyberMinistries on May 10, 2006, 09:00
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What about the Secret of the Mona Lisa?
DVC (p.121) Her [Mona Lisa] name is an anagram of the divine union between male and female.
DVC (p.120) Whatever Leonardo was up to…His Mona Lisa is neither male or female. It carries a subtle message of androgyny. It is a fusing of both.
So…reality check time (painted in 1503)
Mona Lisa comes from “mona or M’lady” a common title of respect in 16th Century Florence….Lisa comes from the name of the woman in the portrait.
In 1550…within 30 years of Leonardo’s death, Giorgio Vasari wrote a biography of Leonardo and says that this was a painting of Lisa Gheradini de Giocondo, who was the wife of Fransisco Giocondo a wealthy French Merchant.
However, Leonardo liked this portrait and the one of John the Baptist so much he kept them himself and carried them with him to France
I want to emphasize again…
Even if Leonardo believed and painted with the motives suggested in the DaVinci Code, that in and of itself does not provide one iota of evidence that this amazing 15th century painter and inventor had any special or more accurate knowledge of what went on in the 1st century in the historical record. He actually had less information at his disposal than we have today…
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