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(Source, cnn.com)MILAN, Italy (Reuters) -- A new theory that
Leonardo's "Last Supper" might hide within it a depiction
of Christ blessing the bread and wine has triggered so much
interest that Web sites connected to the picture have crashed.
Speculation over hidden meaning in Leonardo da Vinci's famous
fresco has crashed several Web sites.
The famous fresco is already the focus of mythical speculation
after author Dan Brown based his "The Da Vinci Code"
book around the painting, arguing in the novel that Jesus married
his follower, Mary Magdelene, and fathered a child.
Now Slavisa Pesci, an information technologist and amateur scholar,
says superimposing the "Last Supper" with its mirror-image
throws up another picture containing a figure who looks like
a Templar knight and another holding a small baby.
"I came across it by accident, from some of the details
you can infer that we are not talking about chance but about
a precise calculation," Pesci told journalists when he
unveiled the theory earlier this week.
In the superimposed version, a figure on Christ's left appears
to be cradling a baby in its arms, Pesci said, but he made no
suggestion this could be Christ's child.
Judas, whose imminent betrayal of Christ is the force breaking
the right-hand line of the original fresco, appears in an empty
space on the left in the reverse image version.
And Pesci also suggests that the superimposed version shows
a goblet before Christ and illustrates when Christ blessed bread
and wine at a supper with his disciples for the first Eucharist.
The original Da Vinci depicts Christ when he predicts that one
among them will betray
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