THE SECRET SYMBOL IN MELENCOLIA THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL

March 10, 2014 | By Elizabeth

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MELENCOLIA I (Image Placeholder)
MELENCOLIA I

In my previous article... I reported to you that there is nothing allegorical about anything that is in Albrecht Dürer’s most famous print or any of his art at all. And that Albrecht Dürer was using steganography, known in this case as the Dürer Cipher, a secret messaging system where others do not even know messages are being passed to a target audience.

Steganographic Symbols Illustration
An example of how steganographic symbols can be hidden in images

You also learned about how incredibly skilled Dürer was in hiding an inscription in plain sight that everyone thought was a title for over 500 years.

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