Dan Brown Had It Wrong

Apparently, the real Da Vinci code is a tasty jam. Leonardo Da Vinci's famous mural The Last Supper, depicting Jesus' last meal with his disciples before he was arrested and crucified, has long been the subject of symbolic analysis and some controversy. Computer technician and musician Giovanni Maria Pala believes that the many loaves of bread that are seemingly scattered about the table at random in the painting represent musical notes (click on the picture above to see an enlarged version). The table itself (more specifically, the table top) represents the staff, sans the standard five horizontal lines, upon which musical notes are traditionally written. The idea is that if you superimposed a musical staff onto the table top, the particular alignment of the bread loaves/notes would represent a 40-second piece of music. Da Vinci, renaissance man that he was, did dabble in music. Hmmmm. Wouldn't it be funny if the "hidden music" turned out to be "Smoke on the Water?" Read more here.