I got an email from Derek Bair a little while ago. He has been doing some fascinating work that reveals a real life Da Vinci Code.
Here’s a link to his website It’s Just Life and below is his press release.
New Discoveries uncover a real life Da Vinci Code
Unless you’ve been hiding under a pop-culture resistant rock, you’ve heard about the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, which raised a number of previously-unconsidered questions about the world’s greatest inventor, his work, and his connection to Christianity.
Today, an even less likely candidate has emerged with a new book about the master inventor Leonardo Da Vinci. This one promises to be even more controversial: Derek Bair, a 24-year old aspiring writer and photographer from Lake Forest, California. Derek has unearthed secrets about Da Vinci that he promises will stun even the experts.
“No one is going to believe it until they see it for themselves!”
Until now, no expert has uncovered what Bair has in Da Vinci’s work. Bair’s book, “Discovering Da Vinci’s Daughter”, examines Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and his life, pulling out secrets that have not been discovered-even by Da Vinci experts. Using his expertise in digital media as a method of analysis, Bair says his research and findings have been based off of Da Vinci’s notebooks and art and credit his success to understanding how Da Vinci thinks more than anything else.
“I believe I’ve discovered exactly what Da Vinci left behind for someone to piece together,” says Bair. He claims that Discovering Da Vinci’s Daughter is a “real life Da Vinci Code.” It not only explains the secrecy behind Da Vinci’s work, but Bair realized there are many parallels with Leonardo’s life and his own. “We’ve both been obsessed with animals, horses especially, and drawing. He’s also kept journals, and mine have grown from a couple entries in high school to literally phonebook-sized or more, year after year.”
He has been researching and analyzing the Mona Lisa and other art by Da Vinci and has come up with several very intriguing theories. “The Mona Lisa was x-rayed and found to have at least three other paintings underneath which are invisible to the naked eye. What are those other paintings underneath?” asks Bair.
One of his many theories also includes the assertion that Da Vinci could be considered the world’s first photographer. “He painted with such perfect detail and precision that his paintings, especially the Mona Lisa, we can barely understand today how he painted it.” In his book he credits the Shroud of Turin which has 3d photography characteristics to Da Vinci. Although others have made this assertion, Derek provides a unique connection based on Da Vinci’s most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man.
Bair has been intrigued by the many mysteries surrounding the Mona Lisa including why the perspective the background inexplicitly rises mysteriously behind her. He discovered that if you roll up a print of the Mona Lisa that you can see the edges match up. This discovery alone
is significant as no one has noticed this in the last 500 years.
He also doesn’t believe that the sitting is really Lisa Giocondo, “It’s definitely not her! She was used for her name and not her face. Just like Dan Brown used in his novel, Da Vinci was fond of word games and double meaning; Mona Lisa is no exception.”
One of the many theories of the identity of the Mona Lisa has been Da Vinci himself, as his self-portrait matches up exactly with that of the painting. Bair found after more research that the painting of Da Vinci’s assistant and lover Salai, which is housed in the Alois collection in Liechtenstein, also combines perfectly with the Mona Lisa. Derek says that this discovery alone provides the biggest insight into the Mona Lisa to date. Since the painting of Salai was painted before the Mona Lisa, it would have had to be used in the creation of the Mona Lisa.
“For two painting to align perfectly when placed on top of each other, with only a change in size and NOT in proportion means that they would have had to been designed to do so.” Giving more credit that this is no coincidence the title of Mona Lisa itself is a clue. An anagram of Mona Lisa is “Mon Salai” which means “My Salai” in French. Another name for Salai is Salino which is anagrammed to “Ona Lisa.” Is this a complex coincidence or careful planning? In his book Derek explains how and why this happens.
“I knew Da Vinci had it match up for a reason. Considering that he never married I was left with the idea that it could have been a painted daughter.” After comparing the painting of Salai,
Da Vinci’s lover, it matched with the Mona Lisa even more than Da Vinci’s sketch. “It was one of those moments in my life where I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It made me realize why he kept everything such a secret! He would have been burned at the stake if anyone in his time found out what he really did.”
Despite the substance to back up all of his claims Bair has found it difficult to get anyone to pay attention. “It’s frustrating trying to get people to even look at what I’ve found! It’s made me question everything I’ve found, but it’s also forced me to become my own worst skeptic. It’s taken a year of my life, but I’m ready to stand behind what I’ve found.”
He also believes that Da Vinci might have been either Autistic or had Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a neurological disorder that isn’t completely understood but makes it difficult for those affected to relate to others. Half way through the past year Derek realized he had Aspergers syndrome and dedicated a chapter in his book to it. He also theorizes that Da Vinci was autistic and gives some pretty enticing evidence.
“People with autism actually perceive the world slightly different from everyone else. I believe this is what has enabled me to notice what I have and explains the similarities between Da Vinci and myself. It also explains why I’ve been so afraid to announce what I’ve found. It’s taken months just to work up the courage to finally finish.”
Elaborating on the theory promoted in the “Da Vinci Code” Derek says he’s found the correct way to view the Last Supper that unlocks its secrets and explains that hand without a body and other oddities contained in the painting. He says it shows Jesus holding a baby, and has stereo-gram like characteristics.
“There are going to be a lot of people who wont like what I’ve found, but it’s there none-the-less. The images I’ve found locked in the Last Supper are going to be very controversial, but it’s still just a painting and the personal opinion of the original artist. It doesn’t make it real.”
Derek makes it clear that his prerogative is not proving or disproving anything religious but explaining the curiosities in a painting.
“As far fetched my theories and discoveries might seem they are based off of images and not my personal beliefs. Nothing has been fabricated, everything can be reproduced, and once I get the help I need I’ll show the world things no one would ever believe a painting could contain from 500 years ago.”
Derek’s book which explains his discoveries and research is completely unique to literature. He’s interwoven something he’s calling “Interjections” between each chapter which documents his journey from start to end. Discovering he had Aspergers, going what seemed crazy, losing everything, but most importantly discovering himself. He says that his book is much more than an art book and has something for just about everyone.
“I wrote and designed my book with my original intention in mind. I want to help people. I want to inspire them to do great things. My book evolved from a way to announce a single discovery to a 444 page adventure. I want to change the world. I hope the discoveries I’ve made will be the medium I need to spread a message of hope to a world desperately needing it. During the last year I’ve come up with some pretty fascinating ideas: how to end world hunger, designs for electric cars, energy production, cameras, and more. Things that might sound kinda crazy at first, but once people read my book they might find some of the sanest ideas in a very long time.”
“Discovering Da Vinci’s Daughter” is available at http://www.itsjustlife.com, and www.lulu.com/itsjustlife. A digital version is available for $12.50 with full color pages which can be downloaded immediately. A hard copy (to be mailed) is available for $25.93.
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 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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The da Vinci Project, “Pictures Within Pictures “
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Pesci Slavisa has indeed found one of the many of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Pictures Within Picture, outside the box, outside the frame”, or did he? Question the process he used to find these images and then question his process used to duplicate the mirror images, afterward question Mr. Slavisa again, then in which take a good look at the original invention by Leonardo da Vinci, the perpendicular reverse mirror image process and the optical illusion, researched, discovered and documented in “2005”, in his various paintings, originally discovered by Mr. Michael W. Domoretsy and “The daVinci project in 2005”. We congratulate Mr. Slavisa on independently duplicating something, but surely it was not Leonardo’s thought process or intention. Yes, for the first time in five hundred years after Leonardo’s lifetime I invite you to the viewing Mr. Domoretsky’s “ discoveries of the perpendicular reverse mirror image process and the optical illusion process Leonardo invented. Only then one will surely see the “true code.” We welcome independent corroboration and recognition of the mirror imaging process, discovered in “2005 by Domoretsky and the project. Now come and see the true code encrypted in Leonard’s masterpieces. You be the judge. The links to the perpendicular reverse mirror imaging process, invented by Leonardo da Vinci and discovered by
Michael W. Domoretsky in 2005, The True Code!
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/Mona.html
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/thechild.html
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com/Chalice.html
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…
The da Vinci Project
Managing Director, Michael W. Domoretsky / Director: M. Graham Noll
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Anaxagoras wrote about it,Leonardo practiced it and Now Domoretsky Discovered it:
Anaxagoras writes: Everything proceeds from everything, and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else…
Surely Domoretsky has discovered a greatness that Leonardo left for all of us to joy in!
I suggest that anyone that ever read anything about Leonardo da Vinci should view Domoretsky’s Discoveries.
http://www.lionardofromvinci.com
Thanks for this,
KT