Lots of stuff available on the Codex Atlanticus via Google.
Nothing yet on the hidden room, so far as I can find, but the Codex stuff is plenty interesting for me.
Posted on 01/13/2005 12:05:31 PM PST by aculeus
lesson learned! :]
Wow, talk about a window to the past!
My visit to Florence would have been at least interesting if I had known this was there, probably within feet.
About 25 years ago, a small pair of crypt rooms was discovered where Michelango had had to hide out for some period of time -- got in some kind of trouble with local authorities. The walls were covered with charcoal drawings, overlaying one another, interacting with one another, blended in with the architecture. I believe there was a Nat'l Geo article on it.
Just what makes the Mona Lisa such a great work of art?
Wish they would post pictures.
If you'd bothered to read the article, like I might, you'd know the Leonardo they were talking about was from the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles ("Heroes in a half shell [Turtle Power]").
What a dumb, sophomoric show, but if memory serves, when I was a senior in High School, that show was incredibly popular. Not that I ever watched it, my kids do on occasion, but I think some of the Freshman used to watch it, and not for its camp appeal either. Little weirdos. I wish I was back there to beat them up right now.
Owl_Eagle”Guns Before Butter.”
The eyes seem to follow you no matter from which angle you view the picture.
Really!
In the socialist world, you have to retire when the government tells you to.
I find it mind-boggling that a room could exist for 500 years without anyone discovering it. It's as if the folks there had no curiousity as to why the interior wall was so far away from the exterior wall.
Lots of stuff available on the Codex Atlanticus via Google.
Nothing yet on the hidden room, so far as I can find, but the Codex stuff is plenty interesting for me.
"Researchers have discovered the hidden laboratory used by Leonardo da Vinci for studies of flight and other pioneering scientific work in previously sealed rooms at a monastery next to the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, in the heart of Florence."
The original Area 51...(Zona Cinquantuno)...
This is the reason that MIlton Friedman left the University of Chicago for Stanford. The latter refused to bend its mandatory retirement rule.
Has nothing to do with socialism even though some like to blame it for everything from acne to foot odor.
Did they find his code book?
What's that supposed to be, an early pallet jack?
MM
Wonder how many paintings are layered upon each other.
Painters who practice and experiment on the walls of their workshop tend to paint overtop previous examples.
A wonderful book -- Inventing Leonardo by Richard A. Turner -- is worth a read.
And here, for your fancy, is an excerpt from Walter Pater's 1869 critical essay on the Mona Lisa:
"The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come,"and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern philosophy has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself all modes of thought and life. Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea."
The University of Chicago is not a socialist institution?
It was a bastion of left-wing ideology in 1977.
But I get your point. I spoke cynically, without thinking. ;)
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