1. "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 told the AP.

2. Puccini‘s music, which at times makes fun of the greediness of the dead man‘s relatives via the orchestra, is a harmonically rich music in the usual style of the composer.

3. Alessandro Vezzosi, a Leonardo expert and the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, said he had not seen Pala‘s research but that the musician‘s hypothesis is plausible.‘‘ Vezzosi said previous research has indicated the hands of the Apostles in the painting can be substituted with the notes of a Gregorian chant, though so far no one had tried to work in the bread loaves. 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 told the AP. Where you have harmonic proportions, you can find music.‘‘ Vezzosi also noted that though Leonardo was more noted for his paintings, sculptures and visionary inventions, he was also a musician.