Da Vinci's "Last Supper" Could Contain Hidden Music

FLORENCE, Italy—A computer technician is claiming that Leonardo da Vinci left a 40-second musical composition hidden in The Last Supper, BBC News reports. Giovanni Maria Pala said each loaf of bread in the painting represents a musical note, which together sound "like a requiem." Drawing a musical staff across the painting revealed that the loaves of bread and the hands of Jesus and the Apostles represent notes, Pala contends. Da Vinci was a musician in addition to being an artist and inventor, and Alessandro Vezzosi, director of Tuscany's Da Vinci museum, said the theory was "plausible." "There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there, but it's certain that the spaces [in the painting] are divided harmonically," he said.