Italian Mummy Source of 'The Scream'?

Discovery Channel ^ | September 04, 2004 | Rosella Lorenzi

[Sam Cree]

An Inca mummy kept in a Florentine museum might have been a source of inspiration for Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," an Italian anthropologist claims.

Bearing a striking resemblance to Munch's now stolen painting, the mummy was rediscovered as Florence's Museum of Natural History began to carry out scientific investigations such as CT scans on its collection of Peruvian mummies.

“ It"s the strong resemblance that struck us. Basically, the images of the 'The Scream' and the mummy can be overlapped. ”

"It"s the strong resemblance that struck us. Basically, the images of the 'The Scream' and the mummy can be overlapped," Piero Mannucci of Florence University told Discovery News.

The idea that Edvard Munch got his inspiration for "The Scream" from a Peruvian mummy is not new.

[Sloth]

Pretty pointless w/o the image.

[Sam Cree]

Thanks, you got it posted before I did!

[SengirV]

[SengirV]

Always a day late and a dollar short =(

[Sam Cree]

In fact that was really quick, esp. considering your screen name.

[Sloth]

[Sloth]

LOL

[WL-law]

You mean the painting that keeps getting stolen, over and over again, so as to resemble some bad "Three Stooges" episode?

[Liberal Classic]

Or Home Alone.

[Sam Cree]

The mummy does look like the painting. Weird.

[Sam Cree]

"You mean the painting that keeps getting stolen, over and over again, so as to resemble some bad "Three Stooges" episode?"

Yes, see Sloth's post #7!

[Cvengr]

AhHa! Edvard Munch used a Palestianian woman as his model to paint his infamous portrait and now look what those Israelis have done with their Radial XRay Spy Machine!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1395045/posts

[indianaconservative]

Does anyone have a pic of Macaulay Culkin from Home alone?

[indianaconservative]

Let me try this myself...

[nuconvert]

scream, pong

[Dat Mon]

This thread's a scream, Sam.

[Liz]

In this-----our Age of Religious Restoration----Munch's own perspective on the painting is even more significant.

In fact, The Scream has come to be accepted as Edvard Munch's most significant motif on a secular age - the very symbol of modern man, for whom God is dead and for whom materialism provides no solace.


Munch wrote his version of The Scream motif: "I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. "

[Joe 6-pack]

There's some reference to this in Robert Hughes' "Shock of the New."

[woofie]