Beyond Heaven: The Art Controversy of the History - Part I

Since man has been able to express what he perceived in the world, he has recorded his surroundings in almost every surface available for that purpose. All around the world we can find petroglyphs, rock art, hieroglyphs, figurines, artifacts and many more artistic objects.

First I begin this article by posting some of the most controversial Religious Art work, always looking forward with objective eyes. Many of this frescos, paintings and wall art in many cathedrals have a very logical explanation, but others, well, they arouse doubt even in the most sceptical minds.

Let´s start with one very controversial:

The Miracle of the Snow 1428 by Masolino Panicale

National Museum and Galleries of Capodimonte, Naples

This picture shows Jesus and Mary looking down from a sphere they are in, and just bellow a big gray cloud. This inst just any cloud, is a Lenticular Cloud , this means it have a round but flat.like surface. But in the sky, we can see more and maybe smaller Lenticular Clouds all over the sky. These looks like they are set at random locations, but notice that the principal cloud, where Jesus and Mary are, is at the top and front, looking like they were following Jesus or they were detached from the principal cloud when it was moving.

At first sight it may look that Jesus and Mary are in a large UFO followed by smaller UFOs in some kind of kingdom of heaven flight coming down to Earth. But don't worry sceptical, here we have some probable explanations for some factors that m

ay induce people to think that Jesus is an alien.

First of all, let´s talk about Lenticular Clouds.

Ok, we have a point here, Lenticular Clouds do exits, and, some of them have a very unnatural shape, and I wont be surprised that people misunderstand this. This can explain not only this painting but many others. The problem of finding this explanation credible is the fact that finding one of those clouds is damn difficult, and in this picture we find 30, and they all have virtually the same shape. Hmmm, this is out of place, well, maybe is just that Masolino really like lenticular clouds.

But, maybe is not a Masolino thing, here we have other explanation; let´s talk about the steps of an Angel.

Yes, maybe is not a Masolino Thing. Through religious history the angels have been painted over Lenticular Clouds. What is out of place is that in this painting the artist did not place any Angel above the lenticular clouds. Hmmm. In fact, why an angel will ever need a cloud to step to if they can fly, do they get tired?

We need to consider the probability that many symbols we find in paintings can may refer to inexplicable flying devices people saw and they expressed in their perspective. We need to go deeper, and ask ourselves, it maybe a relation between angels and this inexplicable and unidentified events in the sky? Or the relation between Jesus and another form of intelligent life out there? Could be the kingdom of the heavens something else, perhaps, a tangible kingdom?

Coming up next we will analyse another very polemic painting: "Annunciazione" by Carlo Crivelli...