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There are so many interpretations of paintings that sometimes you think "hang on, surely the painter did not have all this in his mind when he painted this picture??". I do think that sometimes it seems a bit far-fetched...but maybe I am wrong! For instance, Mona Lisa was supposed to be in fact a young boy. Others say that she had just lost a baby (she's wearing a thin black veil). The smile? Not in the first draft... Couldn't Leonard da Vinci just have painted "a" portrait? Straight and simple? As you can guess I am not a fan of these theories.



It's different for painters "belonging" to the Symbolism or pre-raphaelite movements but that was in the nineteenth century, you can see there was some deliberate attempts to make a picture that had a lot of hidden messages.


The undertaker's death

It's the same in litterature where some poet who wrote something in twelveth century was supposed to have hidden many symbols in a 12-line poems. I am not saying that they did not put any...

Perhaps I am being naive...