Originally published at: Why are there UFOs in many Renaissance paintings? | Boing Boing
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Is this post a joke? I really can’t tell.
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Are you sure it’s not a Jewish space laser?
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This one weird trick will cause you to be impregnated by a diety!
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Hey, they’re not “UFOs” - the artists knew exactly what they were painting!
It’s a nice parody of the flying saucer enthusiast logic, anyways - presenting everything backwards. (Next I’d like to see someone catalog all the paintings where someone bungled a depiction of an elephant or crocodile, and use that as evidence for “cryptids.”)
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No Renaissance Sasquatches though?
Sorry, not interested.
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Well, I used to be skeptical of alien life visiting us, but no more! This proves it! Those are clearly proof of extraterrestrial visitors and not standard imagery depicting divine intervention, along with a lot of badly drawn clouds.
/s (not that you need it, I hope)
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Today there all millions and millions of cameras on phones, poles, in cars, pointing out windows… and no one has captured a single indisputable image that makes you question everything.
But 700 years ago… UFO’s were cluttering the sky so much that painters had no choice but to include them.
Ok.
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Yeah, it’s so strange that no matter how good our imaging capability becomes over time, the aliens are always at the extreme, barely-resolvable limit of that capability. I wonder why? /s
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It has something to do with the origins of Albion.
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Technically that qualifies as “modern art” though.
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Did anyone else think of Nope for that third example painting?
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i need to know more about that last painting.
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Honestly this gives some fascinating historical context to the appearance of the otherwise archetyoically modern idea and imagery of UFOs. Would love to see if anyone (perhaps an art historian or historian of folk tales?) has ever looked into this further.
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