Continued from: A Different Da Vinci Code
(cartoon) for St. Anne with the Virgin and Child and the Infant St. John . (Very few reproductions do it justice)… She has a startling wide-eyed face, and a very knowing, almost, wicked smile. It's hardly surprising that this sketch is among the designs that were never completed…. It is his best, most detailed, and least "restored" representation of the inner nature of the Hermetic Angel, and it would be truly astounding in oils or if skillfully digitized… Contrast St. Anne's face with the profound innocence depicted in the same sketch on the face of her daughter, the Virgin Mary… St. Anne also resembles
Leonardo's own facial proportions, foreshortened since she is facing down, with a more projecting (masculinized) brow and forehead, a wider chin and deep set almond eyes…more stunningly handsome than conventionally pretty… and, oh yes…like certain other figures in Renaissance art, and most particularly those of Leonardo, St. Anne points upwards!…and most provocatively at that!
Q: So?
A: As with Leonardo's John the Baptist , another figure sometimes blurred into the Hermetic Angel…and check out The Last Supper itself…pointing upward is code for the great and universal Hermetic motto: " As above, so below"… Raphael has the whole phrase depicted in the very center of his The School of Athens where Plato (painted with
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