[Music] ten mysteries hidden in famous paintings [Music] do you love art just as much as we do if yes then this video will open up many exciting things for you as you know art is not just a source of inspiration but a great mystery to artists often add unique little details to their paintings or leave messages that are impossible to notice at first glance we've collected painting masterpieces with surprising secrets at the end of the video there's a bonus waiting for you one of the strangest hypotheses about the Mona Lisa stay with us and learn
the things that you never knew before [Music] number 10 the wrong ear Vincent van Gogh the greatest Dutch painter known for such masterpieces as the starry night and irises highly influenced 20th century art his self-portrait with bandaged ear depicts the artist in a 3/4 profile standing in a room in the yellow house with an injured right ear in reality he cut off his left ear the discrepancy is explained by the fact that van Gogh used a mirror to create the picture of himself it seems to be a strange and sharp reaction for Van Gogh to
cut off his ear however history explains it with the fact that he was deeply troubled and apparently losing his mind at the time he crafted the painting [Music] number nine the painting under the painting if you look closely at the old guitarist by Pablo Picasso you can see a ghostly female silhouette behind the man's head in the top center of the painting after taking infrared and x-ray images of the canvas researchers from the Art Institute of Chicago discovered a few other shapes hidden underneath most likely the artists didn't have enough money to buy new canvases
and had to paint over old ones however it was common for painters to reuse or rework old canvasses some of them were living below the poverty line number 8 the Night Watch is set at daytime Rembrandt another Dutch painter was an innovative master of three media paintings the shooting company of Franz banning and villain van Royden birth better known as the Night Watch is considered to be one of Rembrandt's greatest portrait paintings which were executed at the top of his career the painting depicts the militia fully equipped and ready to embark on a mission during
the restoration of it in 1947 the painting was cleaned of a thick layer of soot after that it became evident that the scene portrayed in the painting takes place not at night but in daylight number seven the Sistine Chapel's anatomical code some American experts in the field of neuro Anatomy believed that the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo contains allusions to anatomy they argue that the right part of the painting is an anatomically correct image of a huge brain you can find even the most sophisticated components of the brain such as the cerebellum the optic nerve
and the pituitary gland at the same time the conspicuous green band perfectly coincides with the vertebral artery moreover another fresco of the Sistine Chapel the separation of light and darkness also has a hidden image of a brain look at God's neck if you superimpose it onto a photo of the human will get a perfect overlap of the same lines have people started to solve a 500 year-old puzzle of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel only now we wonder how many more puzzles it is hiding you number six the symbol of strength the figures of David
and Goliath in another fresco of the Sistine Chapel created by Michelangelo form the Hebrew letter gimel which symbolizes strength in the mystical Qabalah tradition it is not a surprise that the shapes on the painting look so powerful is it number 5 Rembrandt's squint Margaret Livingstone and bevel Conway studied Rembrandt's self-portraits and proved that the painter suffered from stereo blindness this peculiarity made the artist perceive the world a little differently he saw reality in 2d instead of 3d however it is possible that stereo blindness helps Graham Brandt create his immortal masterpieces further proof that a person
can do and achieve anything despite all the obstacles if they wanted [Music] number four vengeance two lovers one of the most famous paintings by Gustav Klimt portrays Adele bloch-bauer it was commissioned by her husband the sugar baron Ferdinand bloch-bauer he found out that Adele and Klimt had an affair and believed that after hundreds of sketches the painter would come to hate his mistress routine work made the feelings between the model and the artist cool down hmm that Ferdinand was a smart guy number three prediction of the end of the world the Italian researcher sabrina's forza
galicia proposed an unusual interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper she says that the artist left a prediction of the end of the world in his painting which will happen on March 21st 4006 to come to this conclusion the researcher deciphered the mathematical and astrological code of the painting that's not the only mystery of Last Supper the hands of Christ and the Apostles along with the loaves of bread on the table forms something that could be read as a musical notation upon testing it does sound like a short tune [Music] number two the world in
yellow almost all of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh featured a dominant yellow professor Paul Wolfe explains that as a side effect of an epilepsy remedy that changes color perception the artists world could look the way we see it in his canvases however there is another version it's known that van Gogh like to drink absinthe this drink contains thujone a moderate consumption of which may cause the drinker to see all objects with a yellow color [Music] number one Mozart and the Masons [Music] there is solid evidence that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Mason even in
his child portrait by pietro antonio lorentz oniy we can see a Masonic symbol a hidden hand that indicates a hierarchical rank in the secret society and now it's time for the bonus which we promised at the beginning of the video toothless Mona Lisa what is it that made Mona Lisa smile so enchanting and captivating dentist and art expert Joseph Bartowski carefully studied Leonardo da Vinci's painting and claims to have unveiled the secret behind logic Wanda's smile he believes that she had lost her front teeth and that influenced her facial expression what a surprise are you
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