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450-Year-Old Painting Contains Over 100 Proverbs We Still Use Today
MyModernMet ^ | January 14, 2017 | Jessica Stewart

Posted on 01/08/2021 12:05:13 PM PST by Bob434

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To: Bob434

Not just hidden meanings. Some you need to hold curved reflective surfaces to them to uncoil hidden imagery or look at them from slanted angles.


21 posted on 01/08/2021 12:45:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: a fool in paradise

wow, didn’t know that- thanks for sharing that- will definitely have to look further into the secrets - Even Van Gogh had hidden things in his- one of his Paris outdoor cafe scenes with electric yellow lights, is said to be actually symbolic of Christ’s last supper (Gogh was a preacher at one time in a coal mining town- lived in sheer poverty, and darn near died serving the miners0- I had a huge book on him when i was a child- read every page, which included all his notes to people, mostly his brother- fascinating read really)


22 posted on 01/08/2021 12:49:28 PM PST by Bob434
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In Don Quixote, Sancho Panza could speak whole pages in nothing but parables. He could not help himself.


23 posted on 01/08/2021 12:50:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
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To: Bob434

https://www.britannica.com/art/anamorphosis-art


24 posted on 01/08/2021 12:52:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Is that guy with a crossbowman failing to hit the broad side of a barn? I’d be surprised if that dates back so far but if it’s not that I have no idea what it could be.


25 posted on 01/08/2021 1:17:27 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Men in suits: women wearing hats and everyone has 5 kids. Ah the baby boom years


26 posted on 01/08/2021 1:20:09 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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I think so- looks like it- it might be a similar but different saying from way back


27 posted on 01/08/2021 1:58:44 PM PST by Bob434
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To: a fool in paradise

thanks for that- very cool-


28 posted on 01/08/2021 2:00:09 PM PST by Bob434
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To: the_Watchman

When I was a child and told my grandmother that I wanted something, she would invariably answer, “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

She was full of such wisdom, as The devil makes worry for idle hands, and many hands make light work.

RIP, Gram.


29 posted on 01/08/2021 2:16:48 PM PST by matchgirl (Praying for President Trump and our lovely First Lady.)
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To: Bob434

That’s racist and transphobic and should be replaced by a 450 year old Mau Mau painting with 100 tribal proverbs instead. It should also have been painted by one of the other 85 sexes instead of a man or woman too.


30 posted on 01/08/2021 3:05:21 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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31 posted on 01/11/2021 7:31:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: a fool in paradise

What are those circular accordion-like structures? Stacks of pancakes?


32 posted on 01/11/2021 7:47:28 AM PST by nwrep
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Japanese lanterns?


33 posted on 01/11/2021 7:53:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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