Forget the Da Vinci Code. The Last Supper, the famous painting at the heart of Dan Brown's mystery bestseller, has an even greater secret to disclose: its creator, Leonardo Da Vinci, would have been able to make up a minyan.

That's at least according to a new booklet, Leonardo Da Vinci's Musical Gifts and Jewish Connections, by Italian musicologist Giovanni Maria Pala and his wife Loredana Mazzarella.

Analysing the picture (above), they argue that the positioning of the bread, hands and fruit in fact represent a double code, which reveals both the notes of a musical score and the letters of a prayer in Hebrew.

They also believe the knot in the corner of the tablecloth could be an allusion to tzitzit.

So now we can add the artist to the list of eminent Lennies in the Jewish Hall of Fame: Bernstein, Bruce and Nimoy.