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

Continuing with the analysis of the most controversial religious paintings, here, Its going to be commented about a painting that depicts one of the most supernatural events ever recorded: The annunciation to the Virgin Mary.

"Annunciazione" by Carlo Crivelli

National Gallery, London

In this painting we can see Virgin Mary partially bowed with her arms around her chest, in a gentle gesture of acceptableness. From the sky there is a beam passing through a hole in the wall, through a dove and finally to Virgin Mary´s head. this beam of light comes from what it seems a brilliant disk in the clouds.

At first impression, it looks like Virgin Mary has been communicated by a UFO above in the sky, and the dove working like a mean through the message is given.

Let´s make a zoom.

No, there is no UFO, but angels. So this clear this popular confusion spread through the web. This pattern of angels and clouds is old. Through history God, Jesus, Mary and the angels have been painted in the clouds representing their divinity.

But, I have to say, this wheel-within-a-wheel pattern of this angels, in this particular historical moment, let me thinking a lot about it. The coincidences grow in number.

What if...Can be a background in the relation of these divinities with the clouds and with the sky, which religious men used to give shape to their expression of faith in the first place? And, what about the unique pattern showed in the "Annunciazione" of a wheel within a wheel? Can this be related to the structure of a flying disk, or it is just another coincidence?

Let´s take a look at this.

For example, this painting from Chine in 1400 A.D. had the following original caption:

"Ji Gung Land: The people could make flying cars that travelled far with a suitable wind. in Tarng´s day (1700 B.C.), Ji Gung people flying car on a westerly Yew Jo. Tarng dismantled their car son it could not be demonstrated to the people...Later an east wind came on which he had them flythe car back to their own country (5000 km) west of our gateway."

Humm, how about that, 1700 years before Christ born, Chinese dudes flew. Amazingly this people describe these events in just the same way the renaissance artist did. Coincidence?

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