Bawdy Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford

Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 9/18/03

[martin_fierro]

A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses.

The Italian plate is thought to have been made by ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century.

It shows a head made up of around 50 fleshy penises, wrapped round each other to form a dense, knotted whole.

The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: "Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead).

The phrase is still a common term of abuse in Italy and elsewhere.

Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, which has bought the plate, describes it as "one of the most extraordinary and fascinating pieces of Italian maiolica (a style of ceramic painting) in existence."

It is a rare example of bawdy Renaissance art which survived the suppression of later, more prudish, generations, it said.

The Ashmolean said the inspiration for the plate remains obscure but it was painted "presumably with an individual in mind."

[martin_fierro]

Just ... damn.

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

"Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi"

Your ears should be burning.

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[VRWCmember]

but it was painted "presumably with an individual in mind."

How did they know about Michael Moore back then.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I can't wait to hear the feminists get all worked up over this heh heh heh

[JoeSixPack1]

If the word "homo" is involved in any language, you're there!

FochaBrutte! (<---Ugly face.)

[bedolido]

as a male model I would be useful as the mole on the figures face.

[xsmommy]

figures you two homos would be here. ; )

[martin_fierro]

BAWD!

<|:P~

[xsmommy]

fruit : )

[JoeSixPack1]

I am practising restraint in my insultuous endevors when addressing such a warm, intelligent, caring, jovial, well rounded, factually irrelevent, unrelenting, perpetually hateful person of the female persuasion such as yourself!

But it's nice to know you care! How about dinner in Peru, your treat??

:-)~~

[NeoCaveman]

I'm so suprised to see you here.....

[NeoCaveman]

ROTFLMAO.

Hobbes, check out #11

[xsmommy]

YOU, sir, are a jagoff...

[JoeSixPack1]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

[hobbes1]

What did you mean you had hoped the plate was made by the Candyman....



Talk about your childhood wishes.....

[xsmommy]

YOU are a testa de cazi... SNOT!

[hobbes1]

If that were true you would be on me, like Jerrold Nadler at a buffet.

[xsmommy]

in your dreams!

[NeoCaveman]

YOU, sir, are a jagoff...

Whatever you say ma'am.....