Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Tonic Water Arrhythmias

versus Dan Brown




The Stendhal Syndrome discussed at a recent workshop brings me back to the emblematic figure of genius that was Leonardo da Vinci.
The novel "Da Vinci Code" has shed a number of fantasies and fabrications on Leonard. Some questions raised:
Leonardo clearly never believed in marriage to Mary Magdalene and Jesus. In the fresco of the Last Supper, Milan (Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie) the person next to Jesus as the Da Vinci Code is a woman supposed to be that Dan Brown's Mary Magdalene.
Answer: the person who is next to Jesus in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is simply St. John that Leonardo represents the vision of its time in every young man.
confabulation is a coarse to claim that it would be Mary Magdalene: the monks would never accept such stupidity in their refectory. But Dan Brown for the purposes of his novel is engaged in this operation by saying


" bigger is more things happening."
And he found an ear ... soft in an audience that can not recognize a marketing action of a literary
As for Leonardo, he only ever came to the idea that Jesus was married, without be particularly pious, his writings show that he applied to give a clear interpretation of biblical characters and simple. Twelve apostles, Twelve Apostles! What is notable in the Supper, it is the terms thereof on the release of betrayal . Only John knows the name, and Pierre, knife in hand, trying to find him the name of the traitor. Another example of confabulation
grotesque Dan Brown would be observed between the faces of Jesus and St. John (aka Mary Magdalene for our hack) an empty triangle, image of the female sex symbol female goddess, guiding principle of nature.
C'mon ... a little pubic hair in the middle of the table. And say you did not see anything and that thousands of morons rush now to the mural of the Last Supper in Milan to contemplate this triangle naughty! Daniel Arasse the wonderful critic and philosopher of art unfortunately gone ahead otherwise illuminating interpretation on the empty triangle between Jesus and Saint John: he simply materializes the immeasurable distance between the dual nature of Christ to both man and God, and human nature only the apostles.
Located at the bottom of the refectory of the convent, this world famous work is one of the most mysterious of the author, including the position and actions of some characters. This is one of only Suppers in the world where Judas is neither back nor away! Many historians claim that Leonardo Da Vinci wanted to show in this table the complexity of human nature, and propose a reflection on the dark side that exists in all of us .. . This is also why the "Last Supper" continues to fascinate.
If you want to read books at once scholarly, initiation, bright and easy on Art, I'd recommend: History paintings, and especially One sees nothing of Daniel Arasse (Pocket Folio). Finally, for those (many) who attend exhibitions and museums without much conviction, the world of Art opens so miraculous for them, if they purchase a small book, published by a publisher confidential, but that is a truly amazing book: The Art and how to look (pretty as can be read in at least two inputs) Hubert Earl editions green shutters. I give you the back cover: "What if instead we say that a painting" escapes "that are bored at the museum, we launched at the meeting of the Art? By learning to drive his eyes. To let him speak his feelings. And if, instead to plead ignorance, have been given the time to listen? From experiences, the author shows us how to "take" to works of art that she has to give "
And if you had a book on Art to read, it would good one.


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