Lewis Howes
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It shows directiveness.
You might think of, I won't mention them by name, some famous dictators of the past who did palm down gestures.
Why?
That is a very dominant gesture.
When people are giving directives, they often say, be quiet, sit down.
Right?
I don't want to hear from you right now.
It's a very direct... Dismissive too, in a sense, right?
Especially if you shake it at someone.
So why would we have these two cues?
They perfectly balance each other out.
Christ is depicted as the highest, most charismatic person in the painting.
And so what does he do?
He literally balances warmth and competence.
He's showing the universal gesture of openness and giving, while at the same time, a universal gesture of direct authority.
1498.
Wow.
Yeah.
So Da Vinci, I think, hid cues that signaled the viewer, wow, he's charismatic.
The takeaway from this, by the way, is if you're giving a directive and you don't want it to be questioned, you're better off giving palms down.