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If you've traveled to Italy, you may have had a difficult time seeing everything you'd like to, perhaps including Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting, "The Last Supper." But according to Fox News, you don't have to miss it, thanks to the high-resolution image of "The Last Supper" available online—at 16 billion pixels! That's 1,600 times larger than images taken with a 10-megapixel camera. Whoa.

Experts will now be able to examine this famous painting closely, discovering details they may not have seen before. "You can see how Leonardo made the cups transparent, something you can't ordinarily see," said curator Alberto Artioli. "You can also note the state of degradation the painting is in."

The high-res image became available on October 27, 2007 on www.haltadefinizione.com. When you get to the site, just click on the painting, and you'll be able to pan and zoom in. The project was started by the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities—Milan Landscape and Architectural Assets Office, De Agostini and HAL9000, an Italy-based company in the high-def photography sector. The digital image was shot using the Nikon D2Xs camera, combined with the AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4d IF-ED II telephoto lens. HAL9000 used software running on an AMD Opteron processor to process over 120GB worth of data, made up of 1,677 digital images of the painting.

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Posted by: Michael
November 7, 2007 8:35 PM

The da Vinci Project

We at the daVinci Project™ are happy to see people like Mr. Pesci Slavisa having an interest in looking for "Pictures within Pictures"™ in Leonardo da Vinci's works. We wonder however in this case whether the method used to find this particular image is a valid one, one that Leonardo might have been able to use to create a hidden image or encrypted message given the lack of the ability to create accurate duplicate images at that time in history. We are not disputing that an image can be found or "constructed" using Pescia method of duplication and transparent transposition or inverse transparent transposition, just that... could it, and would Leonardo using the technology available to him at the time have likely done it? The da Vinci Project, having found many, many images using technologies described by, articulated by and applied by Leonardo at the time, believe this particular image likely not to be a da Vinci construct.

Mr. Slavisa makes no claims other than that he has "found" an image and we applaud him for presenting his image without claim for others to judge. It is a wise and appropriate position.

The da Vinci Project™ and its Managing Director Michael Domoretsky, take an approach whereby we review all of the Master's writings and other works. We then compare and look for patterns in his writings, inventions and artworks over time, looking for precedents, methods and connections that can be applied to his artwork, where he has apparently chosen to encrypt many of the secrets he sought to pass on. We have noted a definite consistency of technique in his using mirrors throughout his career for encryption, and in the perfecting of specific methods in his art works. It is clear in understanding his scientific and inventive genius that he had a definite tendency to work outside the box, and outside the conventional frame... by hundreds of years... The secrets of his view, and perspectives, his explanations on lighting, darkness and shade, were unique at the time and unique to Leonardo daVinci; and it is very obvious that he applied these ideas to his works throughout his life to his many masterpieces.

Strange as it may seem Leonardo's "out of the box, outside the frame"™ encryptions have remained hidden for over 500 years until 2005 when Michael Domoretsky discovered and duplicated the methods while researching one of Leonardo's works, the very famous Mona Lisa.

The perpendicular reverse mirror image process and the optical illusion, the use of subtle lighting, were first used by Leonardo, applied to various sketches and paintings in his youth, and used on into his twilight years to encrypt his messages to keep them hidden from the dogmatic political and religious powers of the day. The encryptions are proof of Leonardo's ingenuity and the trouble he went through to keep the images hidden. The processes are demonstrated for all who wish to understand them on the http://www.lionardofromvinci.com Website.

For the first time in five hundred years, when completed, the "true daVinci code" will come to light in its entirety in "Pictures Within Pictures", a documentary project that the daVinci Project has been working on since 2005 ~ 2007

The da Vinci Project
Managing Director, DVP
Michael W. Domoretsky
Director, Graham Noll
1-508-843-9902


Posted by: july
November 26, 2007 6:21 PM

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Posted by: july
December 4, 2007 1:09 AM

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Posted by: fred
March 5, 2008 12:14 PM

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