19 May 2008
UFOs in Religious Art? Nope.
Posted by MSH under: Ancient Astronauts .
Well, it isn’t the ancient world, but it still fits the kind of thing I’m doing on PaleoBabble. I keep getting links and emails related to the “compelling” evidence for UFOs in Renaissance art, so my annoyance meter has passed the tolerable level.
The UFOs in Renaissance art nonsense primarily extends from Matthew Hurley’s website. An informed rebuttal to this has been out on the web for some time, but it apparently hasn’t been widely discussed or circulated — likely due to the fact that most of it isn’t in English.
Art historian Diego Cuoghi (yes, a real art historian) has a website devoted to analyzing the paintings on Hurley’s website. Sorry, they aren’t extraterrestrials and space ships. The main site is here, but it’s in Italian. But Parts 1 and 5 have been translated into English. I highly recommend them – very interesting and informative, but not for those who are fundamentalist ETH’ers (ExtraTerrestrial Hypothesis).
You definitely need high speed for all these images, too.
5 Comments so far...
Another Aaarrrggghhh! Award Candidate: UFOs Influencing DaVinci! | PaleoBabble Says:
10 February 2009 at 6:21 PM.
[...] those new to PaleoBabble, in an earlier post I directed readers to a real art historian who’s looked into [...]
Clay Says:
16 July 2010 at 4:43 PM.
Im very open minded and look at things from every angle before I choose sides. Some of your arguements just don’t add up. Ancient aliens were here. The evidence is too great, and actually much more plausible then the theories you have
MSH Says:
20 July 2010 at 11:36 PM.
so…what is the evidence for ancient aliens? It doesn’t appear that you’ve read through much of this blog, or my http://www.sitchiniswrong.com site. You might want to do that first and then return here.
Anonymous Says:
26 August 2010 at 5:06 PM.
You seem like just another sun venerating Christian nut on SUN-day looking to justify your own brainwashing, no different than people who believe everything Sitchin says. You all have an agenda to “prove”, one way or the other, notice the quotations around “prove” because you don’t “prove” anymore than Sitchin does.
MSH Says:
26 August 2010 at 5:58 PM.
thanks for the reply — I love it when such coherent, tightly-reasoned responses things like this get posted because they will live forever on the site.
