desired theme- Virgin Mary, baby John-the baptist, Uriel and baby Jesus sheltering in a cave.
Leonardo filled the painting with explosive and disturbing details...
The painting showed a blue-robed Virgin Mary sitting with her arm around an infant, presumably baby Jesus. Opposite Mary sat Uriel, also with an infant, presumably baby John the Baptist. Oddly though, rather than the usual Jesus-blessing-John scenario, it was baby John who was blessing Jesus... and Jesus was submitting to his authority.
More troubling, still, Mary was holding one hand high above the head of the infant John and making a decidedly threatening gesture- her fingers looking like eagle's talons, gripping an invisible head.
Finally, the most obvious and frightening image: Just below Mary's curled fingers, Uriel was making a cutting gesture with his hand- as if slicing the neck of the invisible head gripped by Mary's clawlike hand...
what this was all about, the secret got burried with da Vinci... but he was an outright rebel against Christianity... He didn't intend to malign what the Christian leaders put forward... He only tried to put forward what they inteded (and succeded) to hide...
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