Painters Painting UFOs

To show you how we can be brain washed so easily, let me tell you about a 
picture that I have looked at most of my life but never thought anything 
about what is in the picture. 

I see the Pope with flying objects above the crowed. Is this picture 
supposed to show that Jesus and heaven is in another dimension or are they 
supposed to be returning in ships?

http://www.dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art.html

Reports of unidentified flying objects appear in our most ancient historical 
records

ITALY'S Old Masters were recording flying saucers and UFOs in their 
paintings as far back as the 15th century, according to a scientist in Rome. 
Roberto Volterri argues that artists dating back to 1406 included evidence 
of "strange objects in the sky" for later generations to see. 

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UFOs In 15th Century Paintings
By Richard Owen
The Australian
12-4-2

(Note - For a grand tour of UFOs in old paintings, etc see the UFOs In Art 
History
on the left side of rense.com under Features. -ed)

Italy's Old Masters were recording flying saucers and UFOs in their 
paintings as far back as the 15th century, according to a scientist in Rome.

Roberto Volterri argues that artists dating back to 1406 included evidence 
of "strange objects in the sky" for later generations to see. He says that 
far from being the product of the paranoid Cold War years, UFOs were 
documented but overlooked because they were often extraneous to the subject 
of the painting and could only be explained as "testimonials of something 
seen or heard about".

Volterri, 56, an archaeologist by training, specialises in the measurement 
and analysis of metallic objects. He said he had spent his working life in a 
thoroughly down-to-earth environment of cold and rational calculation and 
sophisticated and precise instruments, but he was convinced science did not 
have all the answers.

"I have been fascinated by the inexplicable since I was a boy," he said. 
"Scientists tend to dismiss what cannot be rationally explained as belonging 
to the realm of fantasy. But it is the job of science to examine what seems 
mysterious, not to dismiss it out of hand."

He has published a book, As the Ancient Chronicles Relate, in which he 
claims to show that past generations have also wondered whether there is 
life beyond that on earth.

Perhaps the most striking example is The Madonna and St John, attributed to 
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) and kept at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. 
In it a man and a dog are clearly gazing up at a UFO-type object behind the 
Virgin Mary's shoulder. No less baffling is a painting by Masolino da 
Panicale (1383-1447), The Miracle of the Snow, painted in 1429 and kept at 
the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. "The painting shows a real event in Rome 
in the second half of the fourth century AD," Volterri said. "But what are 
these strange, dark, elongated clouds in the shape of UFOs?"

Volterri said he had compared these with photographs taken in 1955 in Namur, 
Belgium, which purport to show cigar-shaped UFOs. By contrast, Glorification 
of the Eucharist, by Bonaventura Salimbeni (1567-1613), in the church of San 
Lorenzo in San Pietro, at Montalcino near Siena, shows "what looks very like 
a satellite such as the Russian Sputnik".

Volterri said that in La Tebaide, by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), objects in 
the sky were identical to photographs taken of supposed UFOs in the US in 
the 1950s and 6Os.

But Martin Kemp, professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, said 
the "Renaissance UFOs" had a perfectly rational explanation.

"Many artists used their imaginations to represent celestial or sacred 
powers," he said. "The objects in Masolino da Panicale's painting were not 
UFOs at all but merely clouds schematised to fit in with his perspective."

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