The Mona Lisa is the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. We even sent her into outer space, and it’s the most valuable painting in the world, worth nearly $820 million. The pioneer painter, philosopher and scientist Lionardo da Vinci painted her for 10 years, at the beginning of the 1500s, and scientists claim that he painted her more than 30 times, and kept her close to him for the rest of his life, until he gave her away, along with other paintings of his, to Salai. The well-known model, student and Lionardo’s lover. Well known cryptographer Da Vinci raised everyone’s curiosity with the Mona Lisa, and specifically about her identity and her enigmatic smile, where you can’t tell if she’s smiling or not, resulting in many theories about her identity and her enigmatic smile.

  Nowadays, historians believe that Mona Lisa is Lisa Gherardini, Giocondo’s wife, as was written by the most trustworthy historian and artist of the Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari. Traditionally, though, as mentioned in the “Da Vinci Code,” she symbolizes “the male and the female,” where the right half is the male and the left half is the female, but we don’t know how this “half” actually corresponds to the painting. There are also theories which claim that the Mona Lisa is Lionardo’s self-portrait and others who claim that it’s Salai’s portrait, once again.
  Concerning her enigmatic smile, the "Da Vinci Code” claims that her smile is enigmatic because it’s in the lower spatial frequencies and in 2017 scientists measured her smile, and concluded that she’s happy, “blaming” our confusion on the way our brains work, creating images on their own… A few years ago an Art Detective wrongly claimed that the Mona Lisa is a blend of Salai and Lisa Gherardini, using infrared technology… In this novel one may find the decoding of Mona Lisa's basics, her ID, smile, gaze and above all the "Mona Lisa Code." Even though the, actual Mona Lisa Decoding shown here for the very first time, has nothing to do with Lisa Gherardini and the “male and female,” all of the theorists had a point, and somehow, all of them are part of the actual Decoding of the Mona Lisa which follows, by the Greek mysteries hunter, writer and TV executive: Filippos Marinakis M.F.A. from A.F.I., who studied 4.500 Da Vinci manuscripts and around 20 sciences in order to solve the Mona Lisa’s mystery and plenty of Mona Lisa's secrets, and then comprehend the magnitude of Mona Lisa’s Code, “A landmark for many sciences and our everyday balance and growth,” as the decoder claims.

            THE BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT came from an enigmatic inner voice which led the author to divide Mona Lisa’s face into half vertically.

            And secondly, the comparison between Salai’s "Monna Vanna," or the "Naked Mona Lisa", and Lionardo’s "Mona Lisa;" because Salai was his loved one and therefore he may certainly know a lot about Lionardo’s secret.

"Mona Lisa" by Lionardo da Vinci and "Monna Vanna", or The Naked Mona Lisa- by Salai

 
           [Proof 1] Besides their common stature and perspective, which clearly indicates Monna Vanna’s resemblance to the Mona Lisa, one notices the identical left-half face of Salai, compared to the left half-face of Mona Lisa, as we can see in the image below. [In the novel their relationship is explained, as well as Lionardo’s teachings and emotions.]

            All the above lead to the conclusion that Mona Lisa’s left half is Salai! But of course! Why would Lionardo be an exception and not express his love for his muse and beloved Salai in his favorite masterpiece? Now we know why Lionardo never parted from the Mona Lisa, so as to always have his beloved one with him.  

            So we have answered one half of Mona Lisa’s identity. The one side is his favorite model and lover Salai. If one half is Salai, then who did the Maestro choose to unite with him in his favorite work?

   Because, the more you observe the two half-faces of the Mona Lisa, the more they differentiate from each other. They look as if they have two connecting but different personalities. Two different people. The left cheek is rounded, while the right, with the same skin, is tighter and slightly sucked in, as artists had to do during times of war. Their differences are easily seen if you cover the one half face with your hand and then the other half face, and compare them to each other.
  Everything we observe in Lionardo’s work is a result of deep contemplation, and little or nothing is coincidental.

Τherefore, the Mona Lisa is: "Two different half faces united into one!" The Mona Lisa Code!

  The one half is Salai, the other-half can’t be anyone else but Lionardo himself! Since it's on the verge of the impossible to unite his loved one with anyone else.

             [Proof 2] Looking for proofs for this theory, you realize how organized and a genius Lionardo was, since in order to overcome any doubt of whether they are the Mona Lisa, he named her “Lisa.” And if we follow the decoding’s logic and divide her name in half vertically, we clearly find our proof! "Li-Sa" is the first two letters of the names of LI-onardo and SA-lai, divided just like in the painting! LI-SA= LI-onardo + SA-lai!

MONA LISA'S IDENTITY IS AT LAST DECODED!!

           Lionardo and Salai in love are the enigmatic and in love Mona Lisa! One half found the other and united to create the masterpiece of the Mona LiSa, connecting their names and their faces in one flesh! The glorification of the true love between Lionardo and Salai! An uplifting eros which, thanks to the appreciation of the Mona Lisa, has remained alive since the 16th century, even in the times of the Holy Inquisition, which outlawed erotic relationships between two males. [To the left is Lionardo da Vinci's signature on the Viruvian man.]

As Lionardo da Vinci writes, and circles: [1]

            [Proof 3] Lionardo also wrote this! It’s incredible! His face is the Prison of Love between him and Salai! He wrote his code down! It’s unbelievable... Don’t reveal it, because their freedom is at stake. How poetic are Lionardo’s thoughts…! Together forever, even at the cost of their own freedom! Therefore, Lionardo found also a way to glorify his forbidden love and in front of everyones eyes! A True Genious!

       [Proof 4] Lionardo being the right side also explains why he hid his extremely beautiful face, as historians claim, especially in times where they glorified beauty.

       [Proof 5] And it explains also why he confused the historians by signing either as Lionardo or as Lionardo. Not to expose the “Li-Sa” too fast and send them to prison. To be able, at least through his art, to experience his love freely and, why not, forever! [The drawing to the right, from 1550, shows Vasari's chapter about Lionardo, calling him always Lionardo and not Leonardo.]

            Therefore, Mona Lisa’s identity has also little to do with “half male, half female,” since as we can see with our own eyes; both of her halves are males: Lionardo and Salai. Also, we now understand that the “half” is very literal, as in order to Decode the Mona Lisa we have to divide her face vertically in its middle.   

            Accordingly, her smile confused us, because Salai’s left half-face is fully smiling, when Lionardo’s half is pretty serious. And we can see that if we focus at where each smile stops. Salai’s half smile stops way higher than Lionardo’s. Therefore, our impression of whether she’s smiling or not, changes according to which side of the lips we focus on. If we look to the left we’ll think that she’s smiling, if we look to the right we’ll think that she’s not smiling, and if we focus on Mona Lisa’s centre we’ll be very confused. Because she’s literally half smiling/half serious. A perfect way by Da Vinci to focus our attention and intrigue us, in order to one day solve the Mona Lisa enigma and reveal Da Vinci’s secret code and love. Who could have guessed that it was the smile of two different people?

The enigmatic Mona Lisa's smile, now decoded!
It’s the smile of two different people, where one smiles and the other one is serious!

           The same goes for her eyes and gaze. I believe that we were confused because each of the pupils is looking at a different point on the horizon. Her left pupil is looking straight at us, while her right pupil is wandering. Therefore, Mona Lisa is cross-eyed, and our impression changes according to which eye or half-face we focus on.

           In addition, Lionardo divided them vertically into two different half-faces and in the “John the Baptist” and in the “Salvator Mundi” paintings, with Salai as his other-half, freeing their love from its prison again and again, and in front of everyone's eyes! Therefore, we have seven self-portraits of Maestro Lionardo da Vinci! [In the Novel you will find all Lionardo's self-portraits, and also three never seen before mysterious figures on the Mona Lisa, and most importantly the way Lionardo figured out to have his eyes fixed on Salai forever. The Three-Dimensional Mona Lisa by the hands of magical Lionardo da Vinci, as seen in the novel's cover!]

           [Proof 6] In the "John the Baptist" painting we may all have seen just Salai, since his profile is covering most of his face, but the truth is that it’s the divided+united Lionardo and Salai! The two of them together forever! The left side is Salai, the right can’t be anyone else but the young and very handsome Lionardo, connected now also in age, just to see how they would look together if they were of the same age. Lionardo is truly very handsome and this is his best self-portrait. A very special masculine and feminine beauty which says more than it hides. He cares, and has the curiosity to be playful with us and enjoy himself while expressing their erotic relationship.  

           [Proof 7] In the “Salvator Mundi” painting, Jesus is deep in concentration with both of their eyes in a trance and dreamy, while he holds the crystal bowl of Zarathustra. Is “Salvator Mundi” the chance to show us the spiritual side of their relationship?

At last, the Mona Lisa is decoded! A very original novel, where its heroes by living their lives to the fullest, often make real scientific discoveries and answer some of our biggest questions; even the ones we never thought would have answers. Skip all the books that you're reading. This novel answers so many questions that you won’t even believe it! It also penetrates into Lionardo’s heart, wisdom and soul as no other novel did before, centred on his works and his experiences as they are nowbeing interpreted for the very first time, based on 4,500 manuscripts of the Maestro Lionardo da Vinci. The novel is so faithful to Lionardo that it actually decodes the Mona Lisa, and 350 artworks as part of the novel’s plot, explaining the value of the revealed knowledge in a way that you don’t need to be an “expert” to understand, in its complete depth. This is a life-altering novel. Even if you've read tons of books, you’ve never read a book like this one.            Our best chance to learn as much as possible about our lives and how the world works, by a single book!

           Lionardo also wrote that,
“I will demonstrate the Nature of Man
in the way I describe his figure,”[2]

Meaning that we should focus on the figures in Lionardo's works in order to find the Nature of Man.
And concerning his figure he wrote that,

“The shape of bodies is divided into two parts!” [3]
[Proofs 8 & 9 & 10] Word for word, this is Lionardo’s description of the principle philosophy behind his works: "divided vertically into two different sides." And when Lionardo designs the anatomy of the human skull, he also divides it in half and both of the sides are clearly of a different type, just like the Mona Lisa! Three more proofs about the stated here Decoding of the Mona Lisa.

The Mona Lisa’s Decoding was always right in front of us!
Unbelievable?

           THE REVOLUTIONARY IS that, as it was mentioned in the introduction, what is depicted in the Mona Li-sa, where she is the two matching, but different, other half-faces of Li-onardo and Sa-lai, the same thing occurs for all beings! Meaning that, WE ALL HAVE TWO OTHER-HALF FACES matching, but so different, that they look like they could belong to a completely different person!

WE ALL ARE ANATOMICALLY TWO PEOPLE IN ONE BODY!
           [Proof 11] The easiest proof is that WE CAN ALL SEE THEM IN OUR MIRROR IMAGE and therefore have no doubt about the accuracy of Lionardo’s revolutionary observation on Human Anatomy!

           Let's, as another example, observe the two different half-faces of famous people:

[PERSONAL OBSERVATION OF FAMOUS OTHER-HALF FACES]

The most famous politician of our era. His right half is the famous one, his left the unknown. Meaning that if someone showed us his left half-face, and asked us who he is, we wouldn't even recognize him.            An intelligent journey of decoding the world, towards ones Balance+ Enlightenment. Live inside Lionardo da Vinci’s multidimensional mind at the time he fell in love and created his Masterpieces, with the use of 350 Artworks as part of the novel’s plot and its characters coming of age and Enlightenment. Find out where and why Lionardo hid his unprecedented Code; probably Psychology's Foundation Stone and a mini revolution for Biology, Politics, Robotics, Anatomy, Cosmology, Painting, Archaeology, Neuroscience, Optics, Arts, Marketing and our Everyday Life because it’s revealing a new knowledge about our anatomy, which is on the top of their knowledge chain, while it also is a logical path towards Enlightenment! An easy to understand multidimensional tool to restore our faith to Human Potential and, why not, Save the World!!           Did you check your own two half-faces in the mirror? YOU MAY SEE YOUR TWO DIFFERENT HALF-FACES IN THE MIRROR!           Let's also observe Albert Einstein's two different and independent selves, or how can someone smile and be serious at the same time, just like the Mona Lisa. [Ourselves are explainedt horoughly in the historical fiction novel]

 

          [Proof 12] If our face is divided into two halves, then, logically, our body, is also divided into two halves. Matching, but, different from each other, as we see in our mirror. Not a "copy", but asymmetrically beautiful.

          As we can observe from the picture to the left, the two halves of the body look like they come from a different guy. The left one is hard as stone, the right one has more meat. The nipples are at a different height and the abdominals naturally create different shapes, even though they belong to the same slim person. Is our asymmetrical anatomy proving that our world is principally asymmetrical?

  [Proofs 13 & 14] Our Two Selves are also the reason why we anatomically have two brain hemispheres, instead of one, [as we can see in the picture] which, up to now, we thought would make much more sense. and the reason why our eyes may by cross-eyed, which up to now we also didn't undestand how.

  Meaning that our brain hemispheres don’t serve different purposes as we unofficially think today, we all have two fully operational different minds, because we have two different personalities, making our primary purpose to combine our two selves and double our strength, or else we’ll experience eternal internal nagging.

     [Proof 15] The Nature of Humans is, at first, two anatomically different halves throughout our conception, according to Lionardo, Plato, the Pharaoh's, personal observation and our microscopes in the 21st century, as we can see in the Cell’s picture taken at the exact moment of their separation. They don't look like clones, as we believe today, but they look like two different and matching different halves, as we can see from the picture at the moment of seperation, and we still haven’t studied their relationships and differences, nor the criteria of their mutual attraction, because we’re only just realizing that each cell has a different personality, a different side to it, and you can see their asymmetry with the naked eye.

 

  [Proofs 16 & 17] The same works for our two other-half D.N.A. helix and our two other-half chromosomes. [The Attraction and the Asymmetrically Beautiful is explained in the novel]

 

  One must also notice that our selves are always of the same sex; otherwise one would have, for example, one chest and one breast in the same body. This hasn’t ever happened. Meaning that we're not "half-male, half-female" as we tend to believe in our days.

 

   All the above means that every living being's Nature is to learn how to make two different sides cooperate fairly from within! Or they will face the consequences with internal nagging. [The how is described in the novel]

Therefore, the Nature of all beings
is to learn how to cooperate fairly!
         What a relief... Meaning that it may actually be very possible to make amends with each other, because that is our Nature! The more you learn about the nature, the more you learn to love nature.

        As in the Mona Lisa, we all have anatomically two other-half faces & bodies with the Third one being their combination, our whole face and the impression we create to others. [It's thoroughly explained with real life examples in the historical fiction novel]

      As in the Mona Lisa, one other-half Self is Lionardo, the other-half Self is Salai, and the Third one is the total of them all: The Mona Lisa! So distinct, compared to each other, that you add two male other-half Natures and there appears... a woman!"

      As we can’t ignore anatomically our spine, as our body’s Third part which unites our two other halves, we can’t ignore our brain’s corpus callosum, in the middle of our brain’s hemispheres, connecting them like a maestro.
      As Lionardo describes the natural workings of the male genitals:

“Here is how one soul,
governs two bodies” [4]

  In total: Three Parts. One soul, plus the two bodies.

Therefore, The Mona Lisa Code so far, is that= “We are All Split Anatomically into Two Clearly Different Halves, and a Third one which Combines them”

          Logically, in the same way we’re anatomically divided externally, we’re also divided internally. And that means that our physically different half-bodies carry their own physically different brain hemispheres and personalities, with the third part being their maestro, the decision maker, every time the two other-halves reach an agreement.
  As Lionardo writes:

“And so may it please our great Author,
that I may demonstrate the Nature of Man and his customs,
in the way I describe his figure.” [5]

“The shape of bodies is divided into two parts.
That is, the proportion of the members to each other,
which must correspond with the whole;
and motion is expressive of what passes through the mind of the living figure.” 3

         Here, Lionardo goes a giant step further and reveals that the way he describes man’s figure, "divided into two parts" [1], is the Nature of Man and his customs. Meaning that our Nature is divided into two parts. Therefore, we don’t have just one Nature, we have Two Natures.

        Right after, Da Vinci writes about the workings of its different members, “which must correspond with the whole;” meaning that the two parts must correspond with “the whole,” their combination and third part of the anatomy of all earthly beings. Therefore, we all have Two Natures which must correspond with the whole, our Third Nature. Two divided Natures and their sum. Externally and Internally.

         Meaning that, even if we have three natures and personalities, we share two different views, and not three, because the Third one -“the soul” according to Lionardo’s statement, or “the maestro” according to the writer- is both of these two views; and is therefore already covered by their views, since it’s the combination of the two views. And that means that we all have two clearly different views, two brain hemispheres, two wants, tastes, dreams and talents, two of everything, in one body. And these are the BIG NEWS of Mona Lisa’s Decoding.

         The branches of a tree are also divided into three members [the two divided other-half branches and the trunk], and offer probably the best representation of the proposed here Da Vinci’s anatomical observation, because the trunk is divided by the two different halves of itself, while also being part of its halves. Therefore, even if it has three parts, it has two different point of views, since the third one includes both of their views, as their originator.

    [Proof 18] Accordingly, one may observe that we can’t have internal conflicts if we only have one self. Then who are we talking with internally since we were born?

   [Proof 19] The expressions we have already accepted for our second hidden voice/self are countless: “Little voice,” “A voice inside me told me to…,” "Ourselves," “Internal conflict,” “I’m trying to make amends with myself,” “I’m on good terms with myself.” To which other self are we referring to?

  Evidently, our physical second self, which has its own mind and personality, which we’re called BIOLOGICALLY TO BRING FORTH, AND BRING INTO HARMONY WITH OUR OTHER SELF, IN ORDER TO LIVE A BALANCED, HAPPY AND FULFILLING LIFE.

Therefore, the Revelation of Mona Lisa is that: “We are All Split Anatomically into Two Clearly Different Selves, and a Third one which combines them, with the Goal of Uniting them”

  We can’t ignore the new anatomical fact, because we have seen our Second Self with our own eyes. Our goal is to understand how they work.Two are in conversation, the third one decides for their mutual benefit. He that is reading now and maybe even taking into consideration the Revelation of Mona Lisa.

We are not alone,
we have two selves to satisfy!
  Therefore, it’s logically, the first time we know any Natural Law about our inner world! And here’s why the Foundation Stone of Psychology is suggested. Meaning that, Psychologists and the Psychiatrists are from now on, logically, called to encounter the Second and hidden self inside themselves and their clients, since all three of our Selves are equally important, and only by finding their combination+balance will they cure their clients’ souls, or even their own. [Our notorius "other self" isn't relatied to Carl Yungs theory, about all of us having a shadow/dark self. Our Second Self, as explained here, is equally vivid or gloomy.]

         Which means that we were wrong when we told bipolars to silent their other-self. Their salvation lies in combing them. Meaning that Doctor Jekyll should have communicated with his second self Mr Hyde, and together reach into an agreement, consisting both of their wants, tastes, dreams etc, and in NO WAY silencing neither. [In the drawing above, are the “binaty” "Jealousy and Grace" and the binaty “Like and Dislike,” by Lionardo da Vinci. Like and dislike are a couple in the same body but they have their backs against each other, as the one is opposite to the other by definition. "Facebook's Code" More info in the novel.]

  “Freeing our second voice, means that we free ourselves!” Bare in mind that we don’t have many other selves, there’s just the two of us and the Maestro, and it’s proved by the Mona Lisa and by our biology and anatomy. Also, the stated here second self is NOT related to Jung's "dark self" or our unconscious.

          By knowing that we really do have another equal self, we can't avoid him anymore, and therefore, we'll most probably take our inner self or little voice seriously, since he may be hiding most of what we were missing since we were born.

          Our goal now is to get to know our equal and different, but not opposite or dark, Second Self, and then to externalize it. Then experience their common ground, and then teach your know-how to the ones you care for most. And that’s how we may start to talk freely to each other, quitting the everyday polemics we all experience in our everyday lives, and as a domino effect, making a better life for everyone.

          Mona Lisa’s Secret Code, Identity, Smile and Gaze, at last, has been decoded. We now know for a fact, that we have a Second Self anatomically, and it’s about time to externalize our Second Self; or we’ll continue on living unfulfilled and with eternal internal nagging. The uniting of our three selves is not only a powerful tool for our everyday balance and growth, and a possible landmark for many sciences -since it reveals a new knowledge about our anatomy which is at the top of the knowledge chain- but also a way to become a complete person and, therefore, fulfilled, happy and wise. Will the new knowledge of having a Second Self anatomically, be able to set the beginning of a new, balanced and glorious life to everyone who combines them successfully?

         Now that we know that “collaborating two clearly different sides is a biological need,” will we at last start seeing the common grounds we share not only with our inner self, but with almost everyone, and finally quit the miserable facades most of us wear? The utmost goal of this new knowledge is to make our world much more balanced and peaceful. Internally, as well as in our interpersonal relationships, and why not, in our societies as a whole, as a domino effect. Now, we have all the reason to.

Will the “Revolution of the Guileless” succeed in the 21st century? If the message is understood, then the ripe time has come. Our first goal is to talk freely to each other.

How, though, all of the above improve our everyday life, in our personal quest to achieve our balance, either internally or externally, in our interpersonal relationships and inside our society as a whole?           How does Lionardo’s Code expand in 45 original theories, while being a logical path in order to cease your inner turmoil, or even leading you to your Enlightenment and the Awakening of your Third Eye?            What is the "System of Nature’s Balance," and what is the function+philosophy of the "Tri-fair Demosophy," a brand new Naturally Democratic System which follows the way nature spreads power fairly, where “power belongs to everyone and no one.”  In the novel one may also find what the Nature of Humans is, according to facts.   The difference between reading the manuscript or not is tantamount to opening your eyes or keeping them tight shut.                 The historical fiction novel includes 165 original theories and 350 gorgeous and explained paintings and drawings, mainly by Lιonardo himself, as part of the plot, adulthood and enlightenment of the novel’s characters, the “Seekers of Truth.”

With the kind support of Ocelotos Publishing.           Novel's English proofreader/editor: Susan Perry. Refferences: [1] Codex Forster, by Lionardo da Vinci, 10 v., Literary Works of Lionardo da Vinci, VOL. II, by Richter, page 414. [2] Codex Windstor, by Lionardo da Vinci: IV 174a [3] Treatise of Painting, by Francesco Melzi, chapter V. [4]. Codex Forster, by Lionardo da Vinci, 10 v., Literary Works of Lionardo da Vinci, VOL. II, by Richter, page 414. [5]. Codex Windstor, by Lionardo da Vinci: IV 174a. *The Decoding of the Mona Li-sa took place during the presentation of the historical novel “The Revelation Of Mona Li-sa” by Filippos Marinakis M.F.A., AFi graduate and a TV Executive for TV Series, among other things, at Athens, Greece on October 20, 2018, at Art Polis Cafe. **To be notified about updates concerning the novel, please “like” the novel’s official page: https://www.facebook.com/TheRevelationOfMonaLisa.           Best deal is suggested to be the Kindle [$7.17] or the Color Paperback from Blurb. **t is also available in Greek, in Athens’s major bookstores, [Ianos, Politeia, Protoporia], and at their eshops, and also from Ocelotos Publishing here.

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The writer, Filippos Marinakis, a Greek native living in Athens, Greece, in order to write the historical fiction novel studied 4,500 Lionardo da Vinci's manuscripts and around 20 sciences, since he Decoded the Mona Lisa in February 2012, keeping it a secret for more than 6 years, until its publishing, titled "The Revelation of Mona Li-sa." Prior, he spent eight years as a Development Executive for Mega TVin Greece, for some of the most loved TV-Series, like “The Royals,” “Don’t pay the Ferryman” and “Sweetheart Lakis,”among others. He has graduated from Athens College, the Athens University of Economics and Business, and from the prestigious A.F.I. in Los Angeles for his Master’s Degree in filmmaking, with his great loves being the magic of love in general, the solving of mysteries, philosophy, humor, history, travelling, aesthetics, sports, the free expression of honest people, and a balance in society.

    The list of the shows he was part of is here, and his resume is here.

   For any kind of questions, comments, suggestions, business proposals etc, you can contact him me via his Facebook or via his Instagram or at contact@filippos.com