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Art Neuendorffer
David L. Webb wrote at HLAS:
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> Have you read Picknett and Price's _The Templar Revelation_?
> They accept the connection of Leonardo da Vinci with the Priory
> of Sion/Rex Deus/Templar tradition (indeed, seVERal authors have
> identified Leonardo as a Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, and
> all Grand Masters are said to take the name "John"), and they
> point out that in Leonardo's last painting, _St. John the Baptist_,
> the saint is depicted making the John gesture.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_the_Baptist_(Leonardo)
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<<St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on wood by the artist
Leonardo
da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was
metamorphosing into Mannerism, it was his last painting. The original
size of the work was 22.4? x 22.7?. It is now housed at the Mus?e du
Louvre in Paris, France. The piece depicts St. John the Baptist in
isolation. St. John is dressed in pelts, has long curly hair, and is
smiling in an enigmatic manner which is reminiscent of Leonardo's
famous
Mona Lisa. He holds a reed cross in his left hand while his right
hand
points up toward heaven. It is believed that the cross and skins were
added at a later date by another painter. Some have also argued that
St. John's appearance is androgynous or hermaphroditic, a theory that
is supported by a sketch by Leonardo known as "The Angel in the
Flesh".
In this drawing a figure that greatly resembles his
John the Baptist shows both a female breast and an erect penis.
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The pointing gesture of St. John toward the heavens suggests the
importance of salvation through baptism that John the Baptist
represents. The work is often quoted by later painters, especially
those in the late Renaissance and Mannerist schools. The inclusion
of a gesture similar to John's would increase the importance
of a work with a religious conceit.
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http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/leonardo/04/5stjohn.html
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David L. Webb wrote at HLAS:
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> In Raphael's painting of the school of Athens,
> they identify the model for Plato as Leonardo himself -
> - and guess what gesture he's making in the painting?
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> http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/raphael/raf_ath4.html
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/SchoolAthens.htm
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The "father of complex numbers" (Rafael Bombelli)
. has Mercury doing the 'John Gesture':
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Bookpages/Bombelli4.gif
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bombelli.html
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/sketch/madonna.jpg
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The Baptist, crowned with a laurel wreath, wearing a fur garment and
carrying a staff, is with his left hand possibly pointing to a spring
and holding a bunch of grapes. The fur & staff can be interpreted as
attributes of the Baptist, and the fruit and laurel wreath as ones
belonging to the classical god of wine. Given the poor state of
preservation of the work, it is difficult to decide whether the
laurel
wreath and grapes were actually part of the original composition.
There is at any rate a text that equates St John with Bacchus: the
"Ovide moralise" by Pierre Bersuire, dating from the 14th century.
A design for the painting shows the naked St John, though without
the attributes of Bacchus. This painting was presumably
produced by Francesco Melzi in Leonardo's workshop.>>
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http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/leonardo/04/5stjohn.html
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George Washingon (right) hand pointing down (anti-John gesture)
http://www.freemasonrytoday.co.uk/masonic-city.shtml
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1602: Critz: Southampton in the Tower
. Glove in gloved (right) hand pointing down (anti-John gesture)
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. http://www.gorki.net/Art/fa12.html
http://www.boughtonhouse.org.uk/htm/gallery2/paintings/earlofsoton.htm
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1524 Titian:
Glove in gloved (left) hand pointing down (anti-John gesture)
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http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/t/tiziano/1portrai/gloves.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
<<The painting is the Baptism of Christ. According to Vasari,
Leonardo painted the young angel holding Jesus' robe and Verrocchio,
overwhelmed by the sweetness of the angel's expression, its moist eyes
and lustrous curls, put down his brush and never painted again. This
is probably an exaggeration. The truth is that on close examination
the painting reveals much that has been painted or touched up over the
tempera using the new technique of oil paint. The landscape, the rocks
that can be seen through the brown mountain stream and much of the
figure of Jesus bears witness to the hand of Leonardo.>>
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/magi.jpg
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a person stands by the elevated roots of a CAROB tree - John's tree,
symbol of sacrifical blood - while making this gesture. In his famous
cartoon of St. Anne the subject also does this, warning an oblivious
Virgin...The disciple whose face is perhaps accusingly close
to Jesus' in 'The Last Supper' is also making this gesture.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/lastsupp.jpg
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All these gestures are saying 'remember John'."
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. - Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Turin Shroud
. - In Whose Image? The Shocking Truth Unveiled
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. http://www.gorki.net/Art/fa12.html
. http://www.shire.net/hrflag/hw.htm
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. St.-John's-bread
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. BACO(n)
. CA(r)OB
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<<The large red pods have been used for food for animal & man
since prehistoric times. The pods and their extracted content
have numerous common names, e.g., St.-John's-bread-the latter
from the belief that they may have been the
"locust eaten by John the Baptist in the wilderness" (Mark 1.6).
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Carob is used also for curing TOBACCO and in PAPERmaking.
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It has been claimed that the seeds were the original of the carat,
. the measure of weight for precious jewels & metals.
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http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Ceratonia_siliqua.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/02327.html
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http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Ceratonia_siliqua.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/02327.html
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<< *CAROB* Pronounced As: karb , leguminous evergreen
tree (Ceratonia siliqua) of the family Leguminosae (pulse
family), native to Mediterranean regions but cultivated
in other warm climates, including Florida and California.
The large red pods have been used for food for animal
and man since prehistoric times. The pods and their
extracted content have numerous common names,
e.g., locust bean gum and St.-John's-bread-the latter
from the belief that they may have been the "locust
eaten by John the Baptist in the wilderness (Mark 1.6).
Carob is used also for curing tobacco, in papermaking,
and as a stabilizer in food products. It has been
claimed that the seeds were the original of the carat,
the measure of weight for precious jewels and metals.
Carob is classified in the division Magnoliophyta,
class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.>>
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Art Neuendorffer