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Medieval Art: Hidden Meanings - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mona Lisa
        
        Gematria
        
        Salai
        
        17 + 1 + 10 + 1 + 9 = 38
        
        Caterina
        
        3 + 1 + 18 + 5 + 16 + 9 + 12 + 1 = 65
        
        6 + 5 = 11 = 1 + 1
        
        Mona Lisa
        
        11 + 13 + 12 + 1 + 10 + 9 + 17 + 1 = 74
        
        7 + 4 = 11 = 1 + 1
        
        3 + 8 = 11 = 1 + 1
        
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        2
        
        Implemented in Italian
        
        Higher fluency than Latin
        
        Latin Gematria Calculator shows same result
        
        Reinforces Da Vinci’s maths prowess and significance of messages
        
        Opposite to religion
        
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        2 & 3 Coincidental
        
        Applied on other artists
        
        Neither identical nor similar outcomes
        
        Titles fail to reflect painted subjects
        
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      - Last Supper
        
        Apostles
        
        3 x 3
        
        Holy Trinity
        
        Son
        
        Holy Spirit
        
        Father
        
        Convey religious doctrines
        
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    - - Friendship with Paccioli
        
        Mathematician
  - - - Sistine Chapel
        
        Surgeon
        
        Human brain
        
        Spinal Cord
        
        Wisdom
        
        Professors, curators, monsingers
        
        Church corrupted beyond reform
        
        Why would Michelangelo risk being discovered by the Church?
    - - Taken in by
        
        Lorenzo de Medici
        
        Studied the Kabbalah
        
        Exposed to Judaism teachings
        
        The Medicis
        
        Main patrons & commissioners of Renaissance artworks
- - - - Jews recognized as ravenous ogres across all mediums
        
        Most prevalent genre of Medieval Fiction
        
        Savage murder of pious child by Jew
        
        Resurrection
        
        Equally savage punishment for Jew
    - - Saint Quentine tortured by Saracen
        
        Saint George's pose was identical yet it's "saintly"
        
        Christ
        
        Medieval monster imagery
        
        Insinuates fear is a part of religious integration
        
        Martyrs
        
        Disciples
    - - Jew with exaggerated features while burning his child
        
        Racist Hysteria
        
        Unites gentile audience against a common enemy
        
        Anti-Semitic cartoons during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
        
        Grotesque Sentimentality
  - - - Race & ethnicity
      - Absence of light / God
        
        Initial Q: David Before Saul
        
        Dark-skinned, bearded demon grasped Saul's coat and pointed at David
        
        Portrayed Saul's evil intentions
  - - - Aligns Bagoas with the Amazons
        
        Suggests a pervasive wariness toward powerful women
    - - defamed by misogynistic authors
        
        "nasty woman"
      - same characteristics as Saracens
        
        "ruthless and vengeful"
  - - - (Male) "Bagoas" recast as a woman "Bagoe"
        
        "to avoid a bad example"
  - - - Monster's seated position signifies Henry's power and grandeur
        
        People feared the antelope
        
        Their King's domination over the monster strengthens loyalty