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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Swiss TV channel censors the Simpsons
The Swiss channel SF has decided to suspend all those episodes of the Simpsons which are set in the Nuclear Power Plant where Homer uses to work without care. The network judged it as offensive because of the recent and dramatic news from Japan.
Should anyone be allowed to decide what we must think?
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci's smile
Mona Lisa is a man, an Italian art historian has claimed. Silvano Vinceti, the head of the National Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, believes the painting like several of Leonardo’s works were inspired by Gian Giacomo Caprotti.
This boy, known as SalaƬ, played the role of friend, helper, student and quite possibly, lover to Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, the painted figure is androgynous and sources tell of one incident during Leonardo’s youth in which he and three other men were accused of committing sexual crimes with a male prostitute, but the charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
Although most of Leonardo’s personal life remains unknown because he guarded information about it, we can recognize the same likeness in most of Leonardo and his school’s portraits that is certainly not casual. Why? Personally, I agree with Lillian Schwartz. She split the faces of the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's self-portrait down the mid-dle, adjusting the sizes and juxtaposing them so that one side of Mona Lisa's face matched Leonardo's. The result was the picture on top-left.
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| (Head of Christ, Gian Giacomo Caprotti 1511) |
Although most of Leonardo’s personal life remains unknown because he guarded information about it, we can recognize the same likeness in most of Leonardo and his school’s portraits that is certainly not casual. Why? Personally, I agree with Lillian Schwartz. She split the faces of the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's self-portrait down the mid-dle, adjusting the sizes and juxtaposing them so that one side of Mona Lisa's face matched Leonardo's. The result was the picture on top-left.
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