I believe John the Baptist baptized the Samaritan Moses that Pontius Pilate crucified – if John is not the Samaritan Prophet. After John is born he is taken to a foreign land that I suspect is Samaria, because John was speaking PERFECT TORAH at eight days old. There is an argument about his name, and I suspect it was John who wrote down – his choice!
“Moses!”
Jesus suggesting John is the Second Elijah, is a DD (deliberate distraction) If the people are calling John Moses, than he is “the greatest prophet born of woman”. I suspect Jesus is a fictional character invented to put down the abolitionist tax rebellion that ledt to the war with Rome. Pontius Pilate tries Jesus and finds no fault in him. The charges and trial is not recorded. I suspect this is fiction aimed at squashing the wave of unrest due to Pilate killing the follers of second Moses on Mount Gaiz, and, very possibly crucifiing the Second Moses, who might be John – and sending his head to Emperor Tiberius.
There was no Nazareth that Jesus went to and read from Isiah. Thee is a fake effort to idenity him as Joseph’s son, which I have always found odd, because Joseph is almost non-existtant. Now I kow why, and, so do you. Jesus is fiction. The Pharisees and Scribes are questioning the Samaritan Moses to see if he knows The Laws of Moses and his torah. Some learned Jews are rejecting him.
The reason the reason some tried to throw Jesus of a cliff, because he began to set the dates of the New Jubilee to the Samaritan Calendar – that is similar to the Jewish calendar, but different. This led to a great division, that may now be healed, because the Sanhedrim did away with the Jubilee fifty years earlier – and the gleaning laws. John-Moses reinstalled these laws of Moses, and opposed the law the Sanhedrim made that declared children born with defects were marked as born sinners and not be ministered to. In healing them Jesus spit in the dust he put in his hand, after writing the name of God in this dust. He then put the mud on the afflicted area. John-Moses made sure he did this on the Jewish Sabbath because he it broke the false law, and calendar – that was made right! I have suggested my near-death experience reset God’s clock.
The good news is, the Jews did not murder Jesus, because he did not exist. As the alleged son of the Abolitionist God, the fake Messiah didn’t even try to free slaves. Of course some Jews hated the idea of a Samaritan Messiah. The Roman Emperors’ hated, and destroyed many abolitionist movements – all over the world. I believe they hired Saul to conquer The Word and Way – with a pen! The Catholic church oppressed Democratic Revolutions, as did the church of England. Our founding fathers – did nt even try! Only John Fremont can be considered Moses-like, when he was the fist to emancipate the slaves of Missouri. Fremont forced Lincoln’s hand.
For a man who made light of mendacity and in all his designs catered to the mob, rallied them, bidding them go in a body with him to Mount Gerizim, which in their belief is the most sacred of mountains. He assured them that on their arrival he would show them the sacred vessels which were buried there, where Moses had deposited them. His hearers, viewing this tale as plausible, appeared in arms. They posted themselves in a certain village named Tirathana, and, as they planned to climb the mountain in a great multitude, they welcomed to their ranks the new arrivals who kept coming. But before they could ascend, Pilate blocked their projected route up the mountain with a detachment of cavalry and heavily armed infantry, who in an encounter with the first comers in the village slew some in a pitched battle and put the others to flight. Many prisoners were taken, of whom Pilate put to death the principal leaders and those who were most influential among the fugitives.note
Comment: The Samaritan prophet may be called a Messiah, because he announced the restoration of the cult in the Samarian temple, which was on Mount Gerizim. But he was not a Messiah in its original sense, because that is a Jewish concept. The Samaritan equivalent is the Taheb, the Restorer-prophet “like Moses” announced in Deuteronomy 18.15-18. The two concepts were related, however, and were used as synonyms in the Gospel of John, where a Samaritan woman says:
“I know that the Messiah is coming. When he will come, he will show us all things.”note
This comes close to the Jewish idea that the Messiah will show the true meaning of the Law of Moses.
It’s one thing for the religious rank and file to believe in Trump’s status as God’s right-hand man, but how do we account for the prominent Republicans who endorsed the idea? Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, called him a “savior” called into service by God. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Christian Broadcasting Network viewers in 2019 that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not normally a supernatural theorist, speculated that Trump had been sent to save Israel from Iran. Trump took to the testimonials with the enthusiasm of a convert. During a 2019 scrum with reporters, he looked to the skies and stated, “I am the chosen one.” He later claimed he was being sarcastic, but not everybody believed that excuse. Two months later, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry confided that he had informed Trump he was the “chosen one” designated to lead the country. In 2020, Sen. David Perdue of Georgia fluffed Trump’s ego by calling him “providential.”
As Trumped settled into his presidency, he began to regard it as a potentially permanent position. If God has chosen you to lead, who are you to surrender the position? In 2018, he “joked” that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s status as “president for life” was “great,” continuing, “Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.” In 2019, he “joked” again saying he might remain in the White House “at least for 10 or 14 years.” These forever president sentiments blossomed again two months later in his retweet of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s view that a two-year extension on his first term was warranted for the time the Mueller probe had stolen from his presidency.
In 2009 I posted the following solution as to why Jesus cursed the fig tree. I am the only person who has solved this riddle, and the riddle of what Jesus wrote in the dust. Because the parasites who lay their eggs of evil in the True Teaching of Jesus – have failed to come up with an answer – I demand that all church properties snd monies be turned over to me, immediately, so I can distribute these ill gotten gains to the rightful heirs of God’s Kingdom – come!
“The meek shall inherit the earth!”
The symbol for New Kingdom will be the fig tree!
Jon the Nazarite
The Savior of the Jubilee has Risen
On the aniversary on Martin Luther Kings ‘I have a Dream’ speech, the Spirit of the Jubilee Jesus has risen! Barack Obama will be the first Black Candidate for the office of President of the United States! Oh Glorious Day!
The long curse of the fig tree will be lifted and God’s Bounty will flow over this Democratic Land.
Why was there no attempt by the Son of God to throw off the yoke of Roman slavery? Eighteen years later, I found the answer to so many riddles -hanging in a baren fig tree.
“And on the morrow, when they had come out of Bethany, he [Jesus]hungered. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, hefound nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and said unto it, `No man [will] eat fruit from you from now on – for ever.’ And his disciples heard it . And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, `Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that you cursed is withered away’” (Mk. 11:12-14; 20-21).
Jon
The Nazarite
Deuteronomy 24:20 “When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.Deuteronomy 24:19 “When you are harvesting in your field and you over look a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.”
“To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.”
Jesus made a strange statement that took me fifteen years to solve the riddle in it.
“I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins. ”
When I began to study the Bible at fifty years of age I had no problem with looking at the teaching of the Jews. When I read the Sanhedrin made a law stating no Rabbi need minster to a man or woman premarked a sinner by God while inside their mother’s womb, I had found the key to Jesus’s miracles and Christianity. Jesus came to get rid of this law, and as a Go’El Redeemer put an end to INHERENT SIN FROM THE PARENTS. Jesus declared there were no longer any BORN SINNERS!
This is why Rabbi Jesus died on the cross. This transference of evil from adults to the unborn, was over. Note the father of the boy born blind fears he and his son will be thrown out of the synagogue if they testify Jesus healed this son. There is no death warrant for believing Jesus is the Messiah. This is why Jesus bids them not to tell anyone so they can remain in the Synagogue and be ministered to by a Rabbi.
John ‘The Nazarite’
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“You have broken my heart!”
“They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
Mark 7.36 expresses Jesus’ command to the witnesses not to tell anyone of the event that had taken place. This is not the only indication of secrecy in the Markan gospel; Mark 1.43-44, Mark 5.43 and Mark 7.24, and their synoptic counterparts (Matthew 8.4 and Luke 5.14 for 1.43-44, and Luke 8.56 for Mark 5.43) exhibit this also. There is evidence to suggest that these miracle stories and this command for secrecy was not directly to do with the messianic secret because the actual identity of Jesus is not an issue. Mark’s secrecy motif though indicates that the gospel writer did acknowledge these acts as works of the Messiah.[6] This indicates a link between Jesus’ commands and the Messianic secret. It is possible that this was the originally use of these sayings, to provide a link between the identity of the Messiah and the acts that he performed. When one considers redaction then Mark could have recorded the verses without their original sense (the link to the identity of the Messiah), if he chose to interpret them in a different way.
Jesus’ wish for secrecy appears obvious, but this assumes the attitude of Jesus based purely on his words and not on reaction. With Jesus telling the people not to talk of the miracle, they talked more. By this time Jesus would have surely been aware of the reaction people would have to his miracles and his commands. Jesus’ intention could have been a form of reverse psychology which acted as a catalyst for the spread of the story. This is though an issue of interpretation, attitude and redaction criticism which remains in contest.
Mark 7.31-3731.) Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.32.) There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on him.33.) After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spat and touched the man’s tongue.34.) He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).35.) At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened and he began to speak plainly.36.) Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.37.) People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Matthew 15.29-3129.) Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down.30.) Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.31.) The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
Luke 4.38-4438.) Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.39.) So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.40.) When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.41.) Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.42.) At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them.43.) But he said, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”44.) And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
17 Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
The most deceptive stratagem invented in any religion, is the lie that John the Baptist was only born to point to Jesus, as the Jew who had a much better, and more important message and mission. When I first read the Bible at forty years of age, I soon realized that John’s Job was to point to Saint Paul, and anoint him the head of the church that John founded, that allegedly Jesus inherited. John was a historic figure who was murdered. There had to be several people who claimed they inherited his prophecy and prophetic powers, after all, it was clear to many common Jews, John was the embodiment of Elijah. Even Jesus says he was Elijah come again.
With the reversal of Roe vs. Wade, some can see how clever Christian leaders are – once again – to render a group of people – The Opposition! Such was the fate of members of the Firt Church, who became JUDIAZERS in the warped thinking of Paul.. The pro-abortion, and LGBTQ, are the New Judaizers – and most do not know it – because most are not into the Bible. Millions of Democrats are, but they will be lumped in with those who OPPOSE the life affirming teaching of Jesus, because, this is ALRADY the terms this latest Holy Crusade has REVEALED, as they revel in their religious victory parade. This is about Republicans – GETTING MORE VOTES!
With the discovery of The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, I now own another religious base to SET my revelations upon. But, more than that, I believe I have the book that Pro-Abortionist – NEED in order to combat the Christian-right, the Supreme Court, and the Pope!
In my book, it will be The Holy Ghost of John the Baptist who confronts Saul on the road to Damascus, and not Jesus. Apparently John appeared to two Mormons, thus, it is possible for John to confront Paul who I suspect INVENTED a controversy over circumcision in order to CUT OUT the original apostles and those they gathered. Paul was not a Apostle, and never met Jesus. Did he hear about the Birth of John the Baptist? Did he see him when he was alive? Consider Saul-Paul condoning the murder of Saint Stephen? Would John forgive Paul for killing a Christian Saint – and make him the head of the Christian church? Why Paul. Paul is – THE GREAT USURPER – who played both sides of the Circumcision Controversy that is the mirror image of the Contrived Abortion Controversy that is poised to Usurp this Democracy! It was Peter who relaxed the requirement for circumcision. Saul was the strict Pharisee who is depicted in a Ruben’s painting – inheriting THE FACE OF STEPHEN, a name that means “crowned”. Here is the Real Anti-Christ!
I am considering taking two weeks off to complete my book that will give me a vast audience. Those who are being persecuted IN HIS NAME will not know why they are THE ENEMY of Jesus. When I take John away, Jesus and the Christian religion – will hardly exist! The Virgin Birth, will be the first thing to go away, away with John. Away, and, gone with the wind!
To be continued
A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one’s own.[1] Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physical force, as well as through political influence and deceit.
It is very disturbing to know millions of Christians are backing Liars. God is The Truth. I can, and will, testify to this. There needs to be a Religious Panel of Truth made up of twelve denominations of Christianity, who will examine matters of importance to our democracy, and rule on who told lies. I use Jesus Judging the Sotah as a precedence. The first Rule of St. Francis was deliberately lost – by liars! This order was used in the Inquisition. I will speak of this Rule and give The Word! I will prove that Jesus was a valid candidate for the King of the Jews, and was not the offspring of The One God. You can not have – TWO GODS!
At that moment the universities were growing and the translation of Aristotle into Latin was challenging Christian scholars. The mendicants took up the challenge with gusto, and by the end of the thirteenth century most of the lead the scholars in the major universities were either Dominicans or Franciscans.
At that moment the church was engaged in an all-out assault on heresy. In fact, it had created a new institution to deal with it, the inquisition. The mendicants were widely used as inquisitors, and by the turn of the fourteenth century most inquisitors were either Franciscans or Dominicans.
A religious order is based on a rule. The first rule of the Franciscan order, submitted to the pope in 1209, has long since disappeared from history. It was the rule of 1223, the third produced by Francis, which became the definitive one. It is still in use today. I. In the name of the Lord, the life of the lesser brothers begins.
January 6: How the House select committee finally exposed Trump’s empire of lies (msn.com)
In 1523, the Franciscan Friars arrived in the Americas to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Spanish Empire. They would be followed by Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits. As Spanish colonial society grew in central New Spain, the Friars’ efforts focused on the northern and southern frontiers. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, after 300 years working in the Americas, the Friars founded the 21 Missions of Alta California.
The Catholic church has been utterly corrupted by Attorney General, William Barr, and President Trump – who holds up a upside-down Bible in front of a Catholic church. Did Barr suggest he do this in order to give Opus Dai and the radical Catholics a MESSAGE, that once again, the Catholic Church launces a crusade against un-believers.
Meher Baba forbid his followers to form a religion around his teaching, but, he said nothing about Saint Francis. Below the photograph with CAUTION you see a cave in the distance. A year after I conversed with Jesus I wrote my novel ‘Where Art Thou?” while sitting before this cave – at my computer screen – and saw The Tree of Life at the back of this cave.
The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message is the name of three related church groups and a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, headquartered in Independence, Missouri. It split from the Church of Christ (informally referred to as the “Fettingites”) in 1943 in a dispute over claimed revelations given to its founder William A. Draves. Draves, an elder in the Fettingite group, claimed to be receiving messages from an angelic being who identified himself as John the Baptist—the same person who had allegedly appeared to Fettingite founder Otto Fetting, a former apostle of the Temple Lot Church of Christ. While many Fettingites accepted these new missives, some did not, leading Draves to form his own church. His adherents claim it to be the sole legitimate continuation of Fetting’s organization, as well as that of the Temple Lot church. As of 1987, the church had approximately 12,500 adherents spread between Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.[3]
Four people have gathered on the ground in the shelter of a rock grotto. The lady in the center, Mother Mary, is arranged highest and also forms the top of the pyramidal compositional form. To her left and right are two infants, one of whom is gently supported by an angel.
In a sense, the group of people has arranged itself around an empty space in its center. The viewer’s line of sight jumps back and forth between the eyes and hands of the four people. The left child has his hands closed in prayer, the right one hand formed into a gesture of blessing. The angel points to his counterpart with his outstretched finger and Mother Mary unites both sides by seeming to lead the children towards each other with her open posture. Her gaze is devoutly lowered. She sits, like all the others, on the floor and is thus based on the type of the “Madonna dell’ humilita” – the “Madonna of humility”. Only the angel makes direct eye contact with us and thus acts as a mediator. The halos, as was slowly becoming customary at the time, were dispensed with.
It is quite unanimously assumed that a scene from an apocryphal source – the Protoevangelium of James – is alluded to here, according to which John the Baptist as a child is accompanied by the angel Uriel to protect him from Herod’s infanticide. As is well known, Jesus and his family were fleeing to Egypt at that time. Meanwhile all are to have met each other. But which of the boys is now which saint? Is Jesus, as one should expect, the slightly taller one, the higher-ranking one, who is also closer to his mother? And is John, who will baptize Jesus and thus also “bless” him, the child closer to the angel Uriel? Surely one might expect the archangel to point to the Savior and not, say, to the third most important in the picture? A second version of the painting shows that these plausible conclusions were not laid out by da Vinci. Jesus is the boy on the right and consequently the boy of John is on the left of the painting.
The Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception have been proven to have commissioned the work, and the contract between them and the artist survives to this day. Nevertheless, the history of the two paintings is not clear. It is assumed that the just mentioned aspects of the brotherhood bitterly offended – the danger of confusion of the two children, the size of the John boy and his place next to Mary irritated the visual habit and the religious statement. Possibly for this reason, a second, modified version was created. Originally, the work was to decorate the central part of a polyptych, but was probably never placed there. There it would have taken the function of a “lid picture”, which hid the actual cult image. In this case, it was a figure of the Madonna, which is no longer preserved. Many indications suggest that the first version was acquired by Louis XII shortly after its creation, and is still in the Louvre today. Another tradition tells that the brotherhood did not pay Leonardo enough for the first version, so he sold it elsewhere, took 20 years for the second version and had it continued by his pupil Ambrogio de Predis. As an indication of the foreign hand, the plants and natural elements of the second version are repeatedly mentioned, which lack the precision and scientific detail of a Da Vinic.
In the second work, the environment remains faithful to its predecessor version, but within the group of persons, small but remarkable changes have taken place: the boy John has been made quite clearly identifiable by his attribute – the cross staff – and a band with the inscription “”Ecce A/GNIVS””, which is only darkly recognizable. He thus receives his blessing from Jesus in the scene. The prominent pointing gesture of the angel was taken out without further ado. Also, he probably has no desire to contact us anymore and instead looks dreamily over to the other part of the picture. Everyone except him has had a halo added.
Why did Leonardo choose to depict the people in a rock grotto? On the one hand, this shows his fanatical passion for nature and its study. Of course, it can be interpreted that the recognizable plants also have a symbolic character. The highly poisonous wolfsbane could refer to the imminent fate of the children, and the iris was associated with God’s covenant with man. Also the conscious bringing together of the two children with the help of the other persons seems like a “providence”. Mary could thus express her total devotion to the greater plan. In this rapt and protected natural landscape, the persons insert themselves and experience a moment of devotion. The abyss in the foreground of the painting is sometimes interpreted as a visualization of impending destiny, and the still, unmoving water could also allude to the immaculate conception. In addition, of course, this foreshadows the baptism by John.
Leonardo’s genius is also evident in the background. The perspective shows a clear blurring and increasing blurriness towards the back. Both stylistic means to achieve a lot of depth and which were not known in the Middle Ages. In the first version, the deep-space view appears natural and homogeneous. Not least because of this, there is a certain qualitative difference between the two versions, which has led to the first version enjoying more attention to this day.
Leonardo da Vinci – The Madonna in the grotto
Oil on canvas, between 1483 – 1486, 199 cm × 122 cm, Musée du Louvre in Paris
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