Dispensary Corner 07 Dec 11
December 7, 2011
CALORIES for the heart.
A heartbroken diamond mogul
spent $33,500 on a dessert to
make him smile.
The world’s most expensive dessert
consisted of chocolate pudding,
edible gold, champagne, caviar
and a two-carat diamond on top.
Not a chocolate lover himself,
the man took the dessert to a Ball
and shared it with the guests.
The dessert was completely
devoured in just 15 minutes.
MONA surrounded by danger?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
may have needed serious medical
attention after she was painted
surrounded by dangerous
animals, according to one US
artist, Ron Piccirillo.
Piccirillo has hit the world stage
with claims that he has cracked
the mystery of Mona’s smile,
saying the painting is about envy.
The artist made the discovery
after using “an old trick” of
turning the painting on its side,
which supposedly revealed the
heads of a lion, ape and buffalo
hovering around Mona.
Piccirillo also found a crocodile
or snake coming out from her
body, on the left hand side.
“I spent the next two months
poring over da Vinci’s journals
and came across the passage on
envy which for me sums up what
this is about,” Picirillo said.
The passage which Picirillo
refers to says that when trying to
paint envy one must “give her a
leopard’s skin, because this
creature kills the lion out of envy
and by deceit”, which Picirillo
says refers to the lion head
supposedly in the painting.
Picirillo also said that the
shading around her nose and
eyes, which looks like a palm tree
also confirms his envy hypothesis,
with da Vinci having also added
that envy should look “Wounded
in the eye by a palm branch and
by an olive-branch, and wounded
in the ear by laurel and myrtle, to
signify that victory and truth are
odious to her”.
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