How Come Hardly Anyone Wants to Answer My Question Below???

Question

this one..............


Do You Think This is Evidence of U.F.O's From Way Back in Art History???
Look At These Old Paintings...........

http://dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art.shtml

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Answer 1

first off just want to say great pictures. finally when someone wants to talk about something productive and educational no body wants to respond. well i think that anything is possible and based on what i saw i defitnitly think that those can be photos can be some type of ufo sighting. where did you get these photos if you don't mind

Answer 2

Hi. Is "How Come Hardly Anyone Wants to Answer My Question Below?" your question? Or is it "Do You Think This is Evidence of U.F.O's From Way Back in Art History?" To the first question I have to say I don't know. But to the second question I would say that a painting is not evidence of anything. Now give me a piece of old titanium fulleride and I'll have a different answer.

Answer 3

I will write about just one picture. The answer would be too long to tell you about each one.

"The Madonna with St. Giovinino" 15th Century"

What intrigues some ufo- believers here are the three objects in the left side of the sky, and the shepherd in the right side, gazing up (with his dog) at a glowing object in the sky.

However, this depiction of a shepherd is simply a standard element found in MANY Natitivies from the 15th and 16th century, referring to the announcement to the shepherds, from Luke: "ANd an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them..."

Typically, the angelic visitiation is depicted as a luminous cloud, or an angelic figure, or an angelic figure emerging from a luminous cloud. And, typically, a lone shepherd, often shielding his eyes, looks at the cloud/angel. Even the dog is often depicted as marvelling at the object as well.

To get even more specific, many artists of the period drew their inspiration not from Luke but from one of the apocryphal works - James' Protogospel - which features a cloud description lacking any angels: "And behold! a luminous cloud over-shadowed the cave... and immediately the cloud dissappeared out of the cave and such a great light shone in the cave that the eyes could not bear it."

The three stars often identified as "ufos" are in fact part of a complex iconography, and this requires one to know that in Florence a lot of political and religious upheavel had taken place at the time of the painting. Girolamo Savonarola was a powerful and influential monk, and great pressure was felt by Florentine artists of the day to represent events in a religiously "pure" manner, causing some artists to even denounce their old works as "heathen" for including updated religious iconography.

"Old" was seen as pure, and the artist who did The Madonna with St. Giovinino (probably Sebastiano Mainardi) reflected the reactionary iconography favoured by Savonarola and others. Three stars, representing the threefold virginity of the Madonna, were often in paintings of the previous century, and were a common feature of Byzantine Madonnas.

These stars often also appeared on her veil, her shoulders, her forehead, or appeared as three rays of light.

In sum, these paintings are depiction of religious figures, and to suppose that artists somehow would insert depictions of UFOs - even putting aside the obvious question of how they would "witness" such a thing more than 1,000 years later - utterly ignores the rigidity of the iconography here.

If the artist had chosen simply to insert a more "modern" iconography, he literally could have lost his life.

Answer 4

Let me give you a factual answer:

I have a book, printed in 1662, Called

Miribilis Annus Secunduds

OR

The Second Year of PRODIGIES

on page 13 under XXXII the following sentence (introduction) appears

The form of a sword coming from a cloud, and hanging with point downwards, sometimes over the Sea, and sometimes over the Land.

further into the article is says:

"... firearms and fire as bright as the sun were plainly discerned coming out of the point .. "

Need I go further; there are 84 pages of similar episodes in this book with over two hundred incidents

Answer 5

yes i believe that people saw ufos back then, that would explain the paintings they have made that are yet to be understood.

excellent site, i was actually looking for a site like this, thanks!


"Summer's Triumph" is the only one that does not convince me, it looks like those are just clouds.

Answer 6

Quite fascinating. What do the art historians say?

Answer 7

I think so. Those look like UFOs to me.

Answer 8

Because your question belongs in sociology, under mythology, rather than in A&S. You asked.

Answer 9

because no1 wants to click on the link

Answer 10

I think it is evidence that humankind has always wondered if there is extraterrestrial life out there.