A “hidden message” has been discovered in one of Michelangelo’s most famous artworks centuries later.
In what seems straight out of Dan Brown’s blockbuster 2003 novel The Da Vinci code, experts have only just spotted what they believe is the face of Mary Magdalene in The Last Judgement.
Sara Penco, the author of the new book Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Judgement, told the Times that Mary can be seen in the corner of the artwork which covers the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
The biblical figure is believed to have been an apostle of Jesus and the first person to see him after he “rose from the dead”.
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