Wed 1 Aug 2007
On Reflection III
Posted by anaglyph under 7 Famous Mirrors
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7 Famous Mirrors (cont)
•4: Alice’s Looking Glass.
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There is, as I’m sure everyone knows, the sequel to Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book is littered with references to mirrors, beginning with Alice’s speculation (in a conversation with her cat – hmmm…) on what might lie on the other side of her drawing-room mirror.
In the manner of a true scientist, Alice’s conjectures quickly turn to experimentation and she finds that, with a minimum of effort, she can actually pass right through the mirror to the reflected world beyond.
Before long she discovers a book containing a poem:
YKCOWREBBAJ
sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT`
ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD
,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA
.ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA
Which of course can only be read with the help of a conveniently handy mirror.
Indeed, the poem might well have been penned by our old friend Leonardo da Vinci, whose notebooks were famously written in a ‘mirror’ hand.
You’re probably thinking ‘Let’s see The Reverend include Leonardo in another installment of 7 Famous Mirrors!! Aha! As we shall see, Leo had more than a little part to play in the next of our mirrors…
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/Reflections.html
The DaVinci project has been under way since 2005 with hundreds of “Pictures within Pictures.â€. 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 Pictures’
Outside the box, outside the frame
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 Domoretsky discovered the images it 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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eeeeek! what is that comment above mine?
Michael: Thank you for visiting The Cow and your for your lengthy if somewhat elliptical observations.
I have taken a comprehensive tour of your site and, well, I think perhaps you might be reading a little bit too much into Leonardo’s already pretty clever accomplishments. Where you see ‘Mary’ inscribed into the wiggles of the reversed images of Mona Lisa’s sleeve, I am more inclined to see, well, “uwuwuuuw”. And the ‘chalice’ you see in a mirrored image of the aforesaid Mona, is a well-known optical illusion that features in a number of works from the ancient world and is, to be honest, not all that remarkable. I think it is a bit of a stretch by anyone’s standards to call it an image of The Holy Grail.
I’m not entirely sure what anything else on your site was about – a mouseover alternating image of Leonardo’s ‘hands’ study and an image of Christ means… exactly… what?
Can I ask you, Michael, have you heard of Peter Popoff? If not, maybe I could introduce you? I think you two might just hit it off.
nursemyra: eeeeeek! is definitely the sentiment.
Im glad Alice turnd to experimentation, cause it appears she discoverd a book about dna.
When does the Dan Brown interpretation of Alice come out? I bet Michael would love to know.
My mirror can’t flip letters; just a poor reflection I guess.
So let me understand this correctly, people are copyrighting their blog comments now……(referring to lengthy #1 comment)….what the hell kind of reflection is that?
Joey: You never know where you might end up when it comes to experimenting! She might have discovered a book about radar. Indeed: Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Casey: Michael’s prolly working on that same idea at this very moment.
Jam: Pedantry much?
Of course, he is absolutely correct folks – it’s pretty hard to sneak a bit of techno-geekery past the Jam Man. The poem that Alice saw (as printed in Looking Glass, at least) is not strictly speaking a real mirror reflection. That would have looked like this:
And been a LOT more difficult to typeset.
Nada: And your point is?©
My wife loves to recite Jabberwocky from memory. Did you know that if you do it backwards it comes out “George Bush is an idiot. Cumquats refrigishdor. George Bush is an idiot. Cumquats refrigishdor” ?