Was Leonardo De Vinci really a woman?
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No, Leonardo DaVinci was a man.\n\nMost scholars believe he was homosexual. The Mona Lisa being a self portrait - as you stated.
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It's a book that suggests all this "contoversial" stuff about the Catholic church and Christianity.  One of the claims, is that Jesus had a romantic relationship with a woman (I think it's Mary Magdelin) and that she is depicted in DeVinci's painting of the last supper.  One of the desciples is painted with more feminine features than the rest.  It's a good but long read, and if you go to Rome or Paris you can take DaVinci Code tours to help you see what some of the art, places ect. in the book.
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Priory of Sion and Da Vinci notwithstanding, of course it is possible. Remember that there are many years in the life of Jesus not accounted for in the Bible. Anyone who thinks that he did not have relations during this time period is being a little naive. I'm not saying that there is a conspiracy, just that we need to look at him as a man. Now...what would Jesus do?
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If I'm not mistaken he was an illegitimate son of a peasant girl and a man of breeding. He went and lived with his father, now as a bastard, and being brought up in a one parent family, you can either blame the world for your problems, or you use it as a means to propel you into making something of yourself. This certainly happened with Leonardo, single handedly starting a movement in painting and science, Renaissance man owes a debt of gratitude to a great modern man..... \nBut was he alien, I certainly hope not. I would like to think that men like him are proof that all human beings can aspire to greatness.....
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She preached and was anointed a "MAN in Christ" by Jesus himself according the Gospel of Mary, a recently discovered Coptic text. Thus allowing her to preach like a man was allowed to. Jesus was less concerned about woman preaching that Paul or the Catholic Church was.\n\nShe also wrote what the Catholics LABELED as the Gospel of John. I believe this is what Da Vinci was trying to tell us by putting Mary in John's place in his paining of the last Supper.\n\nMary was the MOST beloved disciple; she was even the first that Jesus appeared to after his death; she was the only disciple not to forsake Jesus during his trial and murder and according to Thomas, he kissed her differently than he kissed the other disciples.\n\nOther disciples admitted these things after Jesus died.\n\nHowever there is no indication, even in these Coptic or Greek text that Mary carried Jesus seed.
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The secret behind the Da Vinci Code is that it's claims are flat wrong and that the major basis of has already been proven bogus and manipulated.  \n\nIt tried to disprove the bible.  Dan Brown claims that:\n\n-"The Bible is a product of man...not of God." (Page 231)\n-"The New Testament is false testimony." (Page 345)\n-"The New Testament is based on fabrications." (Page 341)\n-"The Bible... has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book." (Page 231)\n\nIs there a woman in Leonardo’s Last Supper?\nLet’s do the math. Jesus and twelve apostles (all men) = 13 people. That’s how many people are in the picture. If Leonardo wanted Mary Magdalene in there, he would have to paint 14 people. \n\nLet’s do the history. The Last Supper was painted to decorate a dining room of a group of Dominican friars. Anyone of them was surely capable – especially when the painting was fresh and new – of noticing and asking why a woman was in the painting. But there is no record of anyone thinking that the figure to Jesus’ right was anyone but St. John because St. John was usually portrayed as a beardless, “pretty” rather than handsome youth. This “prettiness” was the artist’s way of highlighting his youth.\n\nLog on to www.wga.hu, click on Enter Here, click on “B” under “Artist Index,” scroll down and click on Bassano, Jacopo, scroll down his paintings and click on his Last Supper to get an enlarged view and see another young and “pretty” St. John.\n\nOr just think of Jeffrey Hunter playing Jesus in the “King of Kings” for a modern counterpart.\n\nAllow me to refer you to websites that would provide answers to your questions.
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I dont... I dont think Da Vinci did either.
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All of the artwork and architecture is true and the Priory of Sion really was a secret society of which Leonardo da Vinci was a member, but the underlying story is fiction.  Read the fact page at the beginning of the book (it's right after the title page and before the prologue).
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According to the novel it is a series of clues that Da Vinci put into his artwork which lead to the hiding place of the Holy Grail. But beware, the Holy Grail isn't what you might think it is!
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Literally there WAS a Female that actually WAS BORN as a Female. She sorta shaved her head to look male and acted such as a male. I forget the years/date(s) she got away with it. But it DID actually exist. IF my memory IS correct, it was in the 1700s AD. She was Italian.
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It is interesting how women have been given rights, but still denied certain places to be equal to man. Yet there was a woman pope that was almost written out of history. Infact she personated herself as a man and evenatually got elected pope. Even popes are not innocent people and during that time...i can't quote the exact century, but I believe the 16th century....popes had lovers. She ended up pregnant. Before anyone was to find out she tried to flee, but it was too late. She was found out and on her escape out she was given birth to a baby. She and the baby were stoned to death on their way out. The scholars were trying to write her out of history, but like anything the truth can't be totally erased. The church tried to keep money in power in the church thus forbidding priests to marry and keeping it totally male. It wasn't about equal rights, but money and power/politics. Now adays it has been so established that priesthood should only be for men, that Im not sure how well accepted a woman would be as a cardinal let alone a pope. We are still trying for a woman president. Because of the social stigmas we have so much to overcome. There is no overnight fix. Infact women got most of their rights after our rigths to vote...the sufferage. It took us that long just to get there....it will take us that much longer to get where we want to be.
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wait for the next DBrown's book "Yet Another DaVinci Code" -- an answer is there!!\n\nalternatively, make your own research into Leonardo's paintings!!
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no, the da vinci code is a fictional book, it is just a theory. no truth to it.
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Yes!Kinda...I think yes...\n\nWeird because Da vinci is written by one author..Dan Brown..Unlike the bible who's writers are many..\n\nNo..DVC doesn't have a physical evidence.. All are based on theories..
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Definitely fiction. Sorry for the lengthy explanation. It's cut and pasted from a ChristianityToday article. See link below.\n1. Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?\nNo. Mary Magdalene was certainly close to Jesus. She wept at Jesus' tomb (John 20). Jesus even entrusted her to return and tell the disciples about his resurrection. But we have no reason to believe they were married. Brown says that Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper reveals the secret. He writes that the figure to Jesus' right, traditionally known as the apostle John, is actually Mary. Not true. Artists often gave characters feminine features to portray youth. John was the youngest of the disciples.\n\nBrown correctly observes that few Jewish men of Jesus' day did not marry. But why, then, did the apostle Paul, himself celibate, not mention Jesus and Mary when he argued that apostles could marry (1 Cor. 9:5)?\n\n2. What about these alternative gospels that aren't in the New Testament?\nIt's true that the Bible did not arrive as a "fax from heaven," as Brown writes. The New Testament canon in its current form was first formally attested in 367. Nevertheless, church leaders applied important standards when compiling the Bible. Authors of accepted writings needed to have walked and talked with Jesus, or at least with his leading disciples. Their teaching could not contradict what other apostles had written, and their documents must have been accepted by the entire church, from Jerusalem to Rome. Church leaders considered earlier letters and reports more credible than later documents. Finally, they prayed and trusted the Holy Spirit to guide their decisions. \n\nThe so-called Gnostic gospels, many discovered just last century, did not meet these criteria. Many appeared much later than the Bible and were dubiously attributed to major Christian leaders. Their teachings contrasted with what apostles like Paul had written. For example, many Gnostic writings argued that Jesus did not appear in the flesh, because flesh is evil, or they rejected the Old Testament. \n\n3. Were there really competing Christianities during the early church?\nYes—in the sense there were many disputes about the nature of Jesus. And the church has done its best to vanquish challengers to orthodoxy. Once the church decided against the Gnostic writings, they gathered and burned all the Gnostic manuscripts they could find. \n\nLater church councils convened to discuss other threats to Christian orthodoxy. Constantine, the first Roman emperor to make Christianity legal, called the most important of these meetings in 325. Leaders from around the Christian world gathered in Nicea, where they debated Arianism, which taught that God created Jesus. Brown writes that Constantine called this council so he could introduce a new divine Jesus on par with the Father. On the contrary, documents from before Nicea show that most followers of Jesus already called him LORD, the Yahweh of the Old Testament. The church leaders at Nicea rejected Arianism and affirmed that God and Jesus existed together from the beginning in the Trinity. This council produced the first drafts of what became the Nicene Creed, a landmark explanation of Christian belief. \n\n4. What is Opus Dei?\nA conservative religious group within the Roman Catholic Church. Opus Dei urges priests and laypeople to strenuously pursue sanctification through everyday discipline. The group has taken criticism for its conservative views, zeal, and secretive practices. There is no evidence that Opus Dei has resorted to murder; nor has the Vatican entrusted Opus Dei to violently guard the church's deepest secrets, as Dan Brown claims in The Da Vinci Code. \n\n5. Does the Priory of Sion really exist?\nYes, but not as described by Brown. Researchers suspect that members of the real-life Priory of Sion, founded in 1956, forged documents that placed major historical figures—such as Isaac Newton and Leonard da Vinci—in
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The enigmatic smile says it all. Has there been any proof of the true identity of Monalisa? For all we know, all remain theories up to now. Different angles are seen :Da Vinci is being accused of being gay; Monalisa represents the Yin and Yang; the painting is actually the self-portrait of the painter. However, there have been speculations that Monalisa is indeed Monalisa, a lady from one of the upper classes during the Rennaissance period. Well, I better get my facts straight. Be getting some links to prove. Hold on peeps! =)))
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It's a book that suggests all this "contoversial" stuff about the Catholic church and Christianity. One of the claims, is that Jesus had a romantic relationship with a woman (I think it's Mary Magdelin) and that she is depicted in DeVinci's painting of the last supper. One of the desciples is painted with more feminine features than the rest. It's a good but long read, and if you go to Rome or Paris you can take DaVinci Code tours to help you see what some of the art, places ect. in the book.