It is widely known and accepted that Leonardo Da Vinci had two apprentices, Gian Giacomo de' Caprotti and Francesco Melzi, in fact on his deathbed, Leonardo Da Vinci left all the paintings he held within his possession to Gian Giacomo de' Caprotti and his notebooks to Francesco Melzi. What is not widely known though is he had a third apprentice who he told all his secrets to and that person is Giovanni Donato Montorfano, with the proof for this being held in The Crucifixion painting.



 The two books illustrated, one open and one closed, are the red books of painters from Florence, the open one depicting the student (i.e. the apprentice) and the closed one depicting the master.

 
Surprisingly the layout of the room, in which this painting and the painting of The Last Supper by Da Vinci are contained, displays them in exactly the same fashion, with The Crucifixion on the left and The Last Supper on the right.





Given this, then what secrets did Leonardo pass on to this yet unknown apprentice? By looking at the painting in more detail we can find out more secrets including the message contained within the 1495 box.




The biggest and perhaps the most controversial of these refers to four angels that lay at the top of the painting.


 

Initially the painting looks quite innocent, but if you examine it closer each of the angels is staged differently, almost like they were created as a secret message themselves.



Here we can see the angels are formed to make the letters J, N, H and O which in itself is an anagram of John. We already know that this symbolism mirrors Da Vinci’s own belief in Johannism or Mandaeism (a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview), a belief that that John the Baptist, not Jesus was the true Messiah.
 

Whatever the case might be, it significantly opened yet another message that hid within the 1495 code.

 

At the time, when I originally studied this painting, I couldn’t quite figure out why the word ORNOUS was placed within Montorfano’s last name, but after much head scratching it came to me that the letters were placed in the 2nd, 4th and 8th positions for a reason, a reason that had me baffled for days and weeks before discovering the word John in the angels. 

What if it was pointing me to the gospel according to St. John? 

4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
 7 Jesus said to the servants “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”    They did so,
Initially it doesn’t look like much, does it? But look at line 6; which mentions 6 stone jars and twenty to thirty gallons, so we have 6 with another 6 and (I admit at a push) another 6, which gives us the number 666.
 
Considering this is a Da Vinci apprentice work of art I looked at Da Vinci’s notebooks 666 which are actual notes on The Last Supper, but nothing significantly was noticeable until it dawned on me perhaps it was the passage in The Book of Revelations which mentions the number 666 and not Da Vinci’s notebooks.

Revelation 13:18 - This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.

It was then that I transferred the number 1318 to Da Vinci’s notebooks:

All those things which in winter are hidden under the snow, will be uncovered and laid bare in summer. (for Falsehood, this cannot remain hidden).

 A message from Leonardo Da Vinci for whoever deciphered this message to reveal the truth, for the lies could not be allowed to continue.
 

 
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