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Possible da Vinci painting found in Scottish farmhouse; could be worth $150 million
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| August 7, 2012
| Eric Pfeiffer
Posted on 08/07/2012 3:34:34 PM PDT by NYer
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Experts say the six highlighted points indicate this may be a daVinci original (Daily Mail)
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:34:43 PM PDT
by
NYer
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A papal bull was found attached to the back of the painting and is believed to have originated from the era of Pope Paul V, head of the Catholic Church in the early 17th century. Catholic Ping
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:35:59 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
To: NYer
Some people have all the luck.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:37:11 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: NYer
Picasso had his “blue period” and apparently da Vinci had his “red circles with numbers” period.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:37:31 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: NYer
A daVinci in Scotland?
What on earth is a daVinci doing in Scotland?
(with apologies to Churchill aka Rudolf Hess)
To: ClearCase_guy
Perhaps da Vinci all along used the paint by number system. Who would’a known had it not been for this fascinating find!
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:42:24 PM PDT
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:43:23 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: C210N
"Perhaps da Vinci all along used the paint by number system." Of course he did. You never heard of the Da Vinci code? ;-)
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:45:40 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Scott from the Left Coast
"A daVinci in Scotland? What on earth is a daVinci doing in Scotland?" The illuminati conspiracy theorists/Dan Brown are going to make a lot of hay with this one.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:47:32 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: All
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:49:31 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: NYer
Interesting symbolism. Usually DaVinci and his contemporaries have the Magdalene holding a cup as a way to distinguish her. In this case, she is holding a flower. It has some similarities (theme wise) to the Virgin on the Rocks by DaVinci. I wonder if it was more to represent St. Mary the Mother versus the Magdalene?
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:50:17 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: NYer
They should search another closet in that farmhouse, they might find a Stradivarius.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:57:38 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: All
McLaren?? I think she’s a long, lost relative of mine. :)
To: mnehring
No art expert - but I have seen enough religious paintings that a young woman holding a child greeting another child is almost ALWAYS - Mary the Mother holding the Christ child meeting John the Baptist as a child.
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posted on
08/07/2012 3:58:18 PM PDT
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: allmendream
I wouldn’t say always (just because I don’t know) but I have to agree with your observation. It was a very popular subject. Adding in the lamb and the old child (John?) holding a staff which he is usually symbolized with, I think you are spot on.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:01:16 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Notice that John the Baptist is depicted with a shepherds staff and sheep.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:02:08 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: allmendream
Also the woman in the painting has a halo. I'm not sure if Mary Magdalene was every represented with a halo.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:03:01 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: NYer
Workshop of. Or a copy.
No way that is da Vinci himself, unless it's a very, very early work. Or perhaps he painted some of it and left his workshop to finish the rest. The figures of the lamb and St. John the Baptist are clumsy and out of drawing.
Even his preliminary sketches are truer and more proportioned.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:03:21 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: ClearCase_guy
I’d be more impressed by twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.
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