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The researcher saw the painting of van Gogh dedication Leonardo da Vinci

In the famous painting of van Gogh's "Night cafe terrace" encrypted dedication to "the last supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, — believes researcher Jared Baxter

Last theory in the spirit of Dan brown, has shaken the art world, concerns the famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh's "Night cafe terrace" (1888). Independent researcher Jared Baxter (Jared Baxter) suggested that the picture is stored in  the Museum Kröller-müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands) is a dedication to "the last supper" by Leonardo da Vinci. On this thought it gave the number and the strange position of the pieces of visitors in the café. In the centre stands the waiter with long hair and in a white tunic-like garment of Christ, surrounded by twelve visitors café that suggests about the twelve apostles. One of the visitors stands at the door - way, Judas. Moreover, Baxter saw the picture a few lines forming a cross. In particular, he wanted to draw attention to the cross, made of bars of the window, located directly behind the waiter in Belem@

Jared Baxter generally tend to see a lot of religious symbols in the later works of van Gogh. At that time, when he created the painting "the Night cafe terrace", the artist wrote to his brother Theo that he feels "a great loss, if I can say this word in religii@

Baxter is not the only researcher van Gogh, who saw in his work of religious symbols. In the 1990's the Japanese art of TSUKASA Encoder has published a series of books devoted to the use of Christian symbols in a van Gogh painting. One of the main examples for him was a picture of "the Sower" (1888), on which the setting sun is behind the head of the sower like a glowing halo. In 2004 Professor Deborah Silverman book about van Gogh and Gauguin, which claimed to 1888 van Gogh came to the symbolist style, which can be called "sacred realism".   

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru


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