Archive for February 5th, 2010
Leonardo da Vinci – “Bo Nezer Usbi”, from “The Last Supper”
Italian musician Giovanni Maria Pala discovered a secret musical piece hidden in plain sight on Leonardo’s “The Last Supper”. He was astonished to find that the Apostles’ hands and the bread at the table could represent musical notes, which, when played from right to left (in the manner of Leonardo’s own hand), revealed a sacred hymn, similar to those composed during the Renaissance. There was much more, however, as Pala noticed that the notes, in their position, produced strange symbols — similar to ancient cuneiform script — when united to each other by lines. When examined by Father Luigi Orlando, a biblical scholar at the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome, the cuneiform writing turned out to be a sentence written in ancient Hebrew: “bo nezer usbi,” which means “with Him consecration and glory.” So, now, for your listening pleasure, here is Leonardo’s “Bo Nezer Usbi”, from “The Last Supper”.