DaVinci Code Chapel Reveals Ancient Secret
A musical mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years -symbols carved into arches in the Scottish church featured in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" -has been solved according to a Reuters report. The 15th Century Rosslyn Chapel is about seven miles south of the Scottish capital Edinbugh.
Thomas Mitchell, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, and his composer and pianist son Stuart, who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in the chapels arches.
Stuart Mitchell said he and his father were intrigued by 13 intricately carved angel musicians on the arches of the chapel and by 213 carved cubes depicting geometric-type patterns.
"They are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here," he told Reuters. Years of research described on their website led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches.
The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody.
The Mitchells have scheduled a world premiere at a concert in the chapel on May 18, when four singers will be accompanied by eight musicians playing the piece on medieval instruments.
The DaVinci project has been under way since 2005 with hundreds of “Pictures within Pictures.”. We are in the process of building a comprehensive documentary presenting these extraordinary findings.
Leonardo da Vinci, " Pictures Within Pictures "
Outside the box, outside the frame
An intimate and divine truth hidden for centuries at last unveiled in the Mona Lisa, and yes, in other of Leonardo's works including his first recorded drawing, the Landscape of the Arno Valley and his masterpiece, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the infant St. John the Baptist, “the last supper” and others as well.
Anew never before recognized perspective hidden for five hundred years in plain sight, Emerges! Leonardo's message, Pictures Within Picturthes outside the box, outside the frame,, initially discovered and documented in 2005 by Michael Domoretsky of Ipswich Massachusetts.
Five hundred years after Leonardo's lifetime, his genius and message come to light in mirrors and optical illusions. His " secret code” have been hidden in plain sight to be deciphered outside the original borders of the painting using a " perpendicular reverse mirror image process." Leonardo, (actually Lionardo ) was a man of formidable intellect, talent, craft and most importantly a man of curiosity who observed " truth " in the world in all its forms...Physical, Philosophical, and Religious. He was hundreds of years ahead of his time, constrained by the religious tenets and politics of his day. As a result he was unable to express reality, as he perceived it, and so devised a means by which to conceal his truths from all those whom he did not want to understand them for fear of persecution. Being a man of science and art as well as one of the most inventive men of all time, he appears to have imbued his art with multiple levels of meaning; at one level beautiful works of art...On a second and un-deciphered level, until Michael W. Domoretsky discovered the images and processes invented by Leonardo da Vinci, in 2005, appears to challenge the dogma of his day and pass on his beliefs, observations and truths using a process that only one who perceived the world outside the accepted realm, a scientist or mathematician might discover.
The more in-dept and familiar one becomes with Leonardo the man, the more these unique finds make sense. Unlike other artist that are painters first, painting what they see or the impression of what they see, Leonardo appears to have been a scientist and inventor first, then artist, using his sharp powers of observation and reason to create both timeless works of art and as yet not fully deciphered messages for those not limited by traditional thinking.
The more carefully his words, deeds, apparent opinions and interest are studied,
the more credence can be given to his seeking to preserve his thoughts and observations by unorthodox means.
Leonardo left clues... He was credited with having said; the eye, " Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe." Leonardo believed that the perception by the eye; light, dark, shadow, and perspective held the secrets of the world. Hence, when you include Leonardo's life long fascination with mirrors and writing backward it appears likely that he would choose to use constructs and concepts familiar and unique to him to transmit and yet hide from a restrictive and turbulent society, his most treasured messages.
For hundreds of years scholars have continued to study Leonardo's priceless works of art using the most cutting edge technologies available. In recent times millions of dollars have been allocated to perform all types of scientific studies seeking to determine if Leonardo hid anything underneath his finished works...all within the frame of his artworks. The plain and obvious truth is that he did hide things… however Leonardo was forced to work within the limitations and utilized the technologies of his day. His meanings are in plain sight but only for those able to think outside the box and frame. All of the writings and documents relating to Leonardo, point to his being deliberate and patient in everything he did, both in his creations and his art; so it would appear all but inconceivable that in his major and personally treasured works, that every detail would have been a deliberate act of thought, and not an inadvertent inclusion. A minor anomaly in a masterpiece might happen, though unlikely in multiple of masterpieces by such a perfectionist. Clearly recognizable, perfectly formed symmetrical symbols on both sides of his best masterpieces, utilizing mirrors, a technique Leonardo was well know to have used, make it being anything but intentional, all but impossible. You be the judge.
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Da Vinci and the Secret of the Mona Lisa, article by: ThothWeb, http://www.thothweb.com/article-4011--0-0.html
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Managing Director: Michael W. Domoretsky Director: M. Graham Noll
My response to the article by ANSA.it
The Secret image 'found' in Last Supper
My Response: Dated 7-27-07 below:
Madonna, Templar hidden in masterpiece, says expert.
Pesci Slavisa has indeed found one of the many “Pictures in Pictures” outside the box, outside the frame, encrypted by Leonardo da Vinci in his various paintings found originally by Michael Domoretsy and the DaVinci project in 2005. We congratulate Mr. Slavisa on independently duplicating our discoveries, if indeed, they are the same process we discovered. We welcome independent corroboration and recognition of images that use the “perpendicular reverse mirror imaging process” and the “optical illusion “Leonardo da Vinci invented to encrypt, “Pictures With Pictures” a technique first discovered, understood, and documented in 2005 by Mr. Michael W. Domoretsky of Ipswich Massachusetts u.s.a.
As usual, as is our experience repeated time and time again, renowned art critics and professed art experts, such Vittorio Scarbi and many others, base their opinions on accepted art world and art education precepts looking at DaVinci’s works as artists not scientists, inventors and very likely a member of the Mason’s guild (though unproven). Few if any of these “accepted” experts have read his notes in detail or studied the man himself and thus fail to understand and make the connection that he worked outside the box. DaVinci was known to have used mirrors extensively in his writings. It is therefore highly likely and to be expected that he would do something similar in his paintings if he sought to hide ideas, concepts or opinions.
We submit that only someone “as ignorant as a goat” could fail even to consider that a man of DaVinci’s genius and propensity for innovation might possibly think and communicate outside the box, with hidden images, or hide his, what might possibly be considered, heretic or dangerous free thinking ideas by encrypting them in his works of art.
As always it is difficult to persuade experts professing established thought in any field to consider new, alternate or previously un accepted ideas…. But then the experts thought the world was flat for centuries…
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Posted by: Michael W. Domoretsky | July 31, 2007 at 02:06 AM
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The da Vinci Project Research Group
Presents the First Public Showing of Never Before Seen
Hidden Secrets in Leonardo da Vinci’s Artworks
For the first time in public The da Vinci Project Research Group will present and release never before seen hidden encryptions discovered within the world renowned artworks by the esteemed master artist, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.
These are without question ground-breaking discoveries, and the conclusions to be drawn, are nothing less than astounding. These images will reverberate through the art world for decades to come.
His art has been studied greatly since his death and much has been written and rewritten about Leonardo da Vinci and his works for centuries by those searching for his secrets.
For over five hundred years scholars, academics, experts and scientists have searched for the “secrets” that Leonardo was purported to have left for posterity. Nothing of a new nature has really been brought to public consciousness in all that time.
Until now… These ground breaking discoveries, found by Michael W. Domoretsky, to be shown publicly, are beautiful and awe inspiring, the encryption techniques created by Leonardo himself.
These discoveries are significant and once viewed cannot to be dismissed. They bring historic, religious and political significance to Leonardo, da Vinci’s already famous artworks and further solidify Leonardo’s reputation for being one of the most powerful intellects in world history.
The presentation, open to the public and press with reservations, (Limited seating available) will take place on January 8th 2008 at the Tyrian, Ashler, Acacia .Masons lodge at 27 Eastern Ave In Gloucester, Mass. Doors open at 6:00pm , dinner will be at 7:00pm and the one and one half hour presentation will commence at 8:00pm
No photography or recordings of any kind are allowed during the presentation without the express permission
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Founder, Researcher and Managing Director, Michael W. Domoretsky
Director, M. Graham Noll
Director of Research, Glynne Milburn
508-843-9902
Posted by: Michael | January 02, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Great story on Domoretsky and Leonardo da Vinci:
Cracking the real da Vinci code: Hidden in plain sight
Cracking the real da Vinci code: Hidden in plain sight
By Gail McCarthy
GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES (GLOUCESTER, Mass.)
GLOUCESTER, Mass. —
Michael Domoretsky has spent the past four years studying the works of Leonardo da Vinci to uncover the secrets of the original Renaissance man.
Now he’s sharing those secrets with the world.
What Domoretsky has found, he says, is a “legacy of hidden messages” carefully concealed in some of the world’s most famous paintings and decipherable only to those who know how to read them.
Domoretsky, an Ipswich resident, gave his first public presentation on his research before a roomful of North Shore Masons at their lodge on Eastern Avenue in Gloucester on Tuesday night.
The venue was appropriate because Domoretsky believes the 15th century artist was a Mason who incorporated Masonic symbols, like the compass and square, into his works.
“The best place to hide something is in plain sight,” said Domoretsky, who is a Mason himself and works with stone as a self-employed installer of marble and granite countertops.
Domoretsky has had a lifelong interest in da Vinci. But his obsession with the master’s secrets was kindled when he came across an image of the “Mona Lisa” on a Web site about the movie “The Da Vinci Code.”
He’s quick to add, however, that he didn’t see the movie until long after he began his research, has never read the book and his work has no connection to the ideas presented by “Code” author Dan Brown.
Domoretsky said da Vinci was a master of optical illusion who created pictures within pictures within pictures — many of them designed to be visible only with the use of mirrors.
In the darkened hall, Domoretsky projected images of two paintings, “Mona Lisa” and “The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist,” as they appear when mirrors are positioned to the right and left of the original artwork.
The resulting twinned images reveal hidden faces and objects and forms that include several chalices and what Domoretsky sees as a high priest of the Knights Templar, a Templar shield and cross and a sarcophagus.
The Knights Templar came into existence after the First Crusade of 1096 to protect European pilgrims en route to sacred sites in Jerusalem. The order was suppressed about 200 years later but, some believe, went underground and survived as a secret society.
Domoretsky believes da Vinci was “heavily involved in Freemasonry and the Knights Templar.”
Graham Noll of Groveland, who is part of Domoretsky’s da Vinci Project Research Group and assisted at Tuesday’s presentation, said the messages that the artist embedded in his work were intended for other initiates of the secret societies in which da Vinci was involved.
“The membership of craft and professional associations were given knowledge and ritual to protect, and da Vinci was obliged to pass on the information,” Noll said.
Posted by: Paul | January 22, 2008 at 02:52 AM
Great story on Domoretsky and Leonardo da Vinci:
Cracking the real da Vinci code: Hidden in plain sight
Cracking the real da Vinci code: Hidden in plain sight
By Gail McCarthy
GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES (GLOUCESTER, Mass.)
GLOUCESTER, Mass. —
Michael Domoretsky has spent the past four years studying the works of Leonardo da Vinci to uncover the secrets of the original Renaissance man.
Now he’s sharing those secrets with the world.
What Domoretsky has found, he says, is a “legacy of hidden messages” carefully concealed in some of the world’s most famous paintings and decipherable only to those who know how to read them.
Domoretsky, an Ipswich resident, gave his first public presentation on his research before a roomful of North Shore Masons at their lodge on Eastern Avenue in Gloucester on Tuesday night.
The venue was appropriate because Domoretsky believes the 15th century artist was a Mason who incorporated Masonic symbols, like the compass and square, into his works.
“The best place to hide something is in plain sight,” said Domoretsky, who is a Mason himself and works with stone as a self-employed installer of marble and granite countertops.
Domoretsky has had a lifelong interest in da Vinci. But his obsession with the master’s secrets was kindled when he came across an image of the “Mona Lisa” on a Web site about the movie “The Da Vinci Code.”
He’s quick to add, however, that he didn’t see the movie until long after he began his research, has never read the book and his work has no connection to the ideas presented by “Code” author Dan Brown.
Domoretsky said da Vinci was a master of optical illusion who created pictures within pictures within pictures — many of them designed to be visible only with the use of mirrors.
In the darkened hall, Domoretsky projected images of two paintings, “Mona Lisa” and “The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist,” as they appear when mirrors are positioned to the right and left of the original artwork.
The resulting twinned images reveal hidden faces and objects and forms that include several chalices and what Domoretsky sees as a high priest of the Knights Templar, a Templar shield and cross and a sarcophagus.
The Knights Templar came into existence after the First Crusade of 1096 to protect European pilgrims en route to sacred sites in Jerusalem. The order was suppressed about 200 years later but, some believe, went underground and survived as a secret society.
Domoretsky believes da Vinci was “heavily involved in Freemasonry and the Knights Templar.”
Graham Noll of Groveland, who is part of Domoretsky’s da Vinci Project Research Group and assisted at Tuesday’s presentation, said the messages that the artist embedded in his work were intended for other initiates of the secret societies in which da Vinci was involved.
“The membership of craft and professional associations were given knowledge and ritual to protect, and da Vinci was obliged to pass on the information,” Noll said.
Posted by: Paul | January 22, 2008 at 02:53 AM
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