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Download Hidden Secrets In Mona Lisa: Islamic Codes Of Da Vinci Hüseyin Dogan presents these as evidence of Leonardo’s travels to Muslim countries like Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and spending time there, benefiting from the sources and also being influenced by them; his area of interest moving towards technical fields and engineering. The main plot is Leonardo’s being influenced by Islam or even if he did not reveal it, being a Muslim, and putting details about these in his paintings. Placing the things he learned about Islam in his works in a concealed and encoded way. Especially Mona Lisa, the Virgin of the Rocks paintings and the Last Supper mural are examined in detail. Leonardo took sanctuary in Islam after being mistreated in Christian world and on top of that being slandered for homosexuality. In the meantime, he was looking for ways to get revenge. “It was a simple and temporary type of revenge and rebellion for someone creative like Leonardo. So he...

Download Mona Lisa: The People And The Painting Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal–not the silly secrets that the "Leonardo loonies" continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual beginning we see how the painting metamorphosed into a "universal picture" that became the prime vehicle for Leonardo's prodigious knowledge of the human and natural worlds. We learn about the new money of the ambitious merchant who married into the old gentry of Lisa's family. We discover Lisa's life as a wife and mother, her association with sexual scandals, and her later life in a convent. We meet, for the first time, the illegitimate Leonardo's real mother and find out wher...