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Salon Joan Walsh calls Sarah Palin Giuliani in Drag.... Donald Trump agrees
Salon Editor Joan Walsh called Governor Palin: Mayor Giuliani in Drag
and our crack staff found video proof,
archives also show that Donald Trump agrees.
Bulldog with Lipstick is causing troubles all over the country especially in the New York's big Adams Apple! Salon Editor Joan Walsh called Governor Palin: Mayor Giuliani in Drag and our crack staff found video proof, ... more -
Clinton set to strike McCain, not Palin
Hillary Rodham Clinton has no intention of becoming a Sarah Palin attack dog — but has no qualms going after John McCain, people close to the former first lady say.
“She’s not the answer when it comes to winning conservative women — she never was — and we’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” said a Clinton insider. “To be fair to Obama’s people, they haven’t asked us to do that.”
Slamming Palin to win back women already hostile to Obama is pointless, the insider said, because Clinton’s most loyal base is working-class voters, not women in particular. “Attacking Palin is checkers, attacking McCain on the economy is chess.”
Clinton will continue to yoke McCain and Palin to President Bush on pocketbook issues. But sources say that Clinton, who supports abortion rights, isn’t likely to criticize the Alaska governor for her anti-abortion stance. She may, however, question Palin’s record on equal-pay issues.
The Obama campaign, alarmed by Palin’s instant popularity, has given Clinton’s staff a proposed fall campaign schedule in economically distressed battleground states — including Ohio and Pennsylvania — where she did well during the primaries, according to people familiar with the situation.
The former first lady, who is due to appear at an Obama event in Florida on Monday, hasn’t gotten back to them yet. When she does, she’s likely to add a few stops of her own — fundraisers, including at least one in Texas to help her repay more than $20 million in debt incurred during the primary.
“They probably don’t want her in Texas, but, hey, that’s where the money is, so that’s where she’s going to go,” said a source familiar with travel planning. Hillary Rodham Clinton has no intention of becoming a Sarah Palin attack dog — but has no qualms going after John McCain, people close... more -
Obama and "sweetie" comment may haunt the ticket
When WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar asked Obama at a campaign stop, “How are you going to help the American auto workers?”
Obama told Agar to "hold on, sweetie," and said he would address that issue with her later. Agar said she never got an answer to her question.
Obama also took some heat in Pennsylvania last month for referring to a factory worker as "sweetie." When WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar asked Obama at a campaign stop, “How are you going to help the American auto workers?̶... more -
Sexist comment: Joe Biden thinks Palin is hot and Clinton is not! LA Times
Oh, jeez, here we go already. With the canny, seemingly good-natured-but-really-a-put-down jokes about a female candidate.
The lone female is gone from the Democratic race; they can't use the old pantsuits laugher anymore. So Joe Biden trotted out the subtly dismissive, isn't-she-pretty line about you-know-who, the newbie on the Republican side. (Translation: There's really nothing else to her to comment about, but I won't say that because I'm not a sexist.)
We wonder how this goes down with those millions of female Hillary Clinton supporters whom both sides covet.
Biden was in Ohio with his Democratic ticket partner, whom he once described as "clean," and told an outdoor rally:
“There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,” Biden said.
“She’s good-looking,” he quipped.
Yeah, really, hold your sides on that one.
Let's turn that reference around 180-degrees and imagine a female candidate in front of a large audience talking about some, oh, hypothetical male opponent for the vice presidency. "Thirty-six years in the United States Senate," she says, "And all he's got to show for it is a beautiful head of hairplugs."
Real classy, right?
-- Andrew Malcolm Oh, jeez, here we go already. With the canny, seemingly good-natured-but-really-a-put-down jokes about a female candidate. ... more -
Palin wows GOP, puts Dems on notice
In her first national address, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin wowed the Republican convention using wit, sarcasm, charm and ridicule in a full scale assault on a now familiar cast of GOP targets — an elitist adversary, a biased media and high taxes.
Without mentioning Democrat Barack Obama’s name and rarely losing a smile, the Alaska governor delivered one riposte after another.
“We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers,” she said. “But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan?
“The answer is to make government take more of your money, give you more orders from Washington and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world,” Palin concluded.
Palin’s poised and flawless performance evoked roars of applause from delegates who earlier this week might have worried that the surprise pick and newcomer to the national stage may not be up to the job.
When the nearly 40-minute address came to a close, however, all doubts were doused and Democrats were on notice that Palin will not flinch from the fight.
Palin’s speech so delighted some Republicans that they suggested it may instantly elevate her to GOP rock-star status and diminish presidential contenders who ran this year who may hope to seek the White House again.
“Who's most bummed?” asked one veteran Republican consultant. “Obama? Biden? Mitt? Huck? Damn that was good.”
A trickier question for Republicans, however, is whether putting a new face on a traditional playbook can produce victory in a election year when voters are clamoring for change in both foreign and domestic policy in Washington.
The Democrats are hoping it won’t. Nominee Barack Obama’s campaign issued a response that looked straight past Palin and linked her rhetoric to President Bush.
“The speech that Gov. Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years,” said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
The carefully crafted response also revealed the tricky road ahead Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, will face in taking on a ticket with the first Republican female vice presidential nominee.
Palin sent a signal that she could be as tenacious a rival in the next two months as Hillary Rodham Clinton was during the extended Democratic primary.
Obama only now is recovering from that showdown, and some former Clinton backers are still threatening to back the McCain-Palin ticket to make history.
In noted contrast to the Obama campaign’s tepid assessment of Palin, Sen. Harry Reid's spokesman Jim Manley offered a blunt response: "Shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base, but they don't change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed Bush-Cheney policies."
In many ways, Palin made it easier for them. Throughout her address, she never mentioned her opposition to abortion rights and support for gun rights — divisive issues that could alienate many voters.
Professor Dennis Michaud, 57, a Rhode Island delegate, said that “as a moderate Republican, she is fantastic.” Once the abortion issue is “set aside, I think the average American working-class person can really relate to her.” In her first national address, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin wowed the Republican convention using wit, sarcasm, charm and rid... more -
Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist
ST. PAUL, Minn. ; Sarah Palin found some unlikely allies Wednesday as leading academics and even former top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed the Republican charge that John McCain;s running mate has been subject to a sexist double standard by the news media and Democrats.
Georgetown University professor Deborah Tannen, who has written best-selling books on gender differences, said she agrees with complaints that Palin skeptics ; including prominent voices in the news media; have crossed a line by speculating about whether the Alaska governor is neglecting her family in pursuit of national office.
;What we;re dealing with now, there;s nothing subtle about it; said Tannen.;We;re dealing with the assumption that child-rearing is the job of women and not men. Is it sexist? Yes;
;There;s no way those questions would be asked of a male candidate; said Howard Wolfson a former top strategist for Clintons presidential campaign.
The sexism charge was hurled with new intensity Wednesday afternoon by McCain surrogates, all women, at a news conference just hours before made her acceptance speech here - a speech in which she said this about the media and Washington elite: "I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country."
The tense encounter with reporters showed how McCain;s team has abandoned all pretense that this convention is about anything but Palin, her; and her wildly unexpected ascension to the GOP ticket.
Cecile Dehesdin, Ryan Grim, David Paul Kuhn contributed to this story. ST. PAUL, Minn. ; Sarah Palin found some unlikely allies Wednesday as leading academics and even former top aides to Hillary Rodham Cl... more -
A time-warped sexist assault
HOLY hoop skirts: When did the clock tick back to 1958?
When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague, friend or competitor advised him to quit his newly won Senate seat to raise his two little surviving sons.
Rather, he was sworn into office from the injured boys' bedside, and took to commuting an hour and a half each way from Delaware to Washington. And when Biden's second wife gave birth to a daughter, no one thought to ask him to step aside and stay home.
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They all do it. John Kennedy did it; so did Barack Obama: Men run for office and serve in elected positions while creating small children without ever being patronized as "super dads" or "multi-taskers."
Nor are they penalized, ridiculed or dismissed for ignoring their kids. They're good dads.
If Sarah Palin, tapped as John McCain's running mate, were a man, it's unlikely we'd even be having this conversation. (A man, or a Democrat.)
Palin is a mother five times over. She also hunts, fishes, coaches hockey, has a day job as the governor of the state of Alaska - and is known to commute home from the state capital of Juneau daily during session. Just like Biden.
And, until at least four months ago, Palin also had the ability to bear a child, which we've just learned is a talent she shares with her 17-year-old daughter.
But women on the left, who fought long and hard for the ability to raise children simultaneously with election cash, are in spasms. (Some have simply kept silent. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton - where are you?)
The same lefty media that studiously ignored the adolescence of Chelsea Clinton can't wait to dig into Bristol Palin.
The Diary section of Daily Kos Web site had a curious way to make Palin's daughter into a campaign issue: "Considering Palin was chosen solely for her religious right family values cred, Bristol's shotgun marriage and pregnancy are very fair game. They are the direct result of this lunatic abstinence-only garbage, and should be highlighted as such."
The stupendously sexist New York Times printed a front-page article noting that some unnamed women argue over "whether there are enough hours in the day for her to take on the vice presidency, and whether she is right to try."
Which left the field weirdly clear for Phyllis Schlafly, who helped defeat the Equal Right Amendment - and also ran for Congress while raising six children - to tell the Times, "People who don't have children, or who have only one or two, are kind of overwhelmed at the notion of five children."
The only question we should be asking is: Can Sarah Palin do the job?
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Leonardo: Artist, Inventor, Matchmaker?
Born 500 years too early to put her photo on an online dating site, this young woman tried a different matchmaking approach — a portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Experts say a little-known portrait of a young woman, previously attributed to an anonymous German artist, is likely a drawing made by Leonardo. The 13-by-9.4-inch parchment is believed to be a nuptial portrait aimed at attracting a possible groom for the unidentified woman.
The drawing, which could be worth millions if the new attribution is confirmed, was bought in 1998 for $21,850 by a private collector at an auction in New York, said Alessandro Vezzosi, the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci.
''Every element points to Leonardo,'' said Vezzosi, one of the experts who examined the drawing. ''This work looks extraordinary.''
Facing left, the woman wears Renaissance garments and the shoulder of her dress is marked by ''Vinci knots,'' a traditional decoration that points to the artist born in the small Tuscan town, Vezzosi said.
Vezzosi said it may also be the first work on parchment attributed to the Renaissance master.
Experts say the technique and style of the portrait indicate it was drawn by a gifted, left-handed artist, just like Leonardo.
''The left hand trait is really impressive for how fluid, secure and precise it is,'' Vezzosi said.
Vezzosi said several experts have backed the attribution over the last few months. The discovery is based on the analysis of the drawing by a Paris-based lab that already studied another Leonardo masterpiece, the ''Lady With an Ermine,'' which was attributed to the artist only in the early 19th century.
Based on its style the portrait has been dated to 1485-1490, placing it at a time when Leonardo (1452-1519) was living in Milan.
However, Vezzosi cautioned that further tests, including carbon-dating, must be carried out.
Carlo Pedretti, director of a center for Leonardo studies at the University of California in Los Angeles, also believes the work is likely Leonardo's.
''Despite all the perplexity that it may cause, also regarding the lack of information on its provenance, the work is at least for now the most important find since the identification of the Lady With an Ermine,'' he said.
Nicholas Turner, former curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum, was among the first experts to be alerted to the portrait and associate it with the Renaissance artist.
The work is of ''extremely fine execution,'' Turner told The Associated Press. ''There were only very few artists of that caliber then.''
Vezzosi did not identify the drawing's owner and said he was not aware of any plans to sell or display it.
He said there could be more works by Leonardo waiting to be discovered.
''There are collectors who keep these works of art in bank vaults, but it is likely that we'll find others,'' he said. ''We know of artworks that have been documented and that we haven't found yet.'' Born 500 years too early to put her photo on an online dating site, this young woman tried a different matchmaking approach — a portra... more -
Leonardo da Vinci, genio 'copione'
Leonardo da Vinci era un 'copione'? Questa è la tesi sostenuta da uno storico dilettante britannico. Secondo il libro di Gavin Menzies il genio rinascimentale disegnò le sue avveniristiche macchine ispirandosi a ''enciclopedie tecnologiche'' portate a Venezia nel 1434 da una flotta cinese Leonardo da Vinci era un 'copione'? Questa è la tesi sostenuta da uno storico dilettante britannico. Secondo il libro di Gav... more
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Leonardo da Vinci's technological drawings derived from Chinese originals?
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines were undoubtedly derived from Chinese originals, a British amateur historian claims in a newly-published book.
Gavin Menzies sparked headlines in 2002 with the claim that Chinese sailors reached America 70 years before Christopher Columbus.
Now he says a Chinese fleet brought encyclopedias of technology undiscovered by the West to Italy in 1434, laying the foundation for the engineering marvels such as flying machines later drawn by Italian mastermind Leonardo da Vinci.
"Everything known to the Chinese by the year 1430 was brought to Venice," said Menzies, when a Chinese ambassador went to Florence and presented the material to Pope Eugenius IV.
"I argue in the book that this was the spark that really ignited the renaissance and that Leonardo and (Italian astronomer) Galileo built on what was brought to them by the Chinese. "Leonardo basically redrew everything in three dimensions, which made a vast improvement."
If accepted, the claim would force an "agonizing reappraisal of the Eurocentric view of history", Menzies says. Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines were undoubtedly derived from Chinese originals, a British amateur historian claims in a... more -
Nell’Ultima Cena, Cristo è raffigurato con la mano sinistra caratterizzata da malf...
Sintesi di un’intervista realizzata in prima serata con Ben Sweeney dall’emittente americana ABC
By Benedict Sweeney
Contributor(s) Lorena Mancini (Italian Translation)
Jan 29, 2007 -
http://www.leonardoshands.com/images/videos/leonardos-h...
Sintesi di un’intervista realizzata in prima serata con Ben Sweeney dall’emittente americana ABC dal titolo i “Misteri della Medicina” - 28 novembre 2006 presso USC (Università della California del Sud)
Prima argomentazione:
Nell’Ultima Cena, Cristo è raffigurato con la mano sinistra caratterizzata da malformazione congenita, definita sindattilia.
Nei suoi manoscritti Leonardo disegna la propria mano sinistra affetta dalla stessa anomalia della sindattilia.
Il giovane Leonardo scrisse in effetti che la sua mano sinistra era stanca e la destra sana
Leonardo scrisse nei suoi appunti: (Cod. Arundel. Folio155r) "Piegato le mie reni in arco e ferma la stanca mano sopra il ginocchio e colla destra mi feci tenebre alle abbassate e chiuse ciglia" (Brizio, 292). Scritto intorno al 1478, quando Leonardo aveva all’incirca 25 anni, ciò sta ad indicare che il riferimento alla sua mano sinistra come la mano stanca avvenne molto prima di quanto ci si potrebbe attendere, se a provocare una tale condizione fosse stato un ictus. Il soggetto della controversia è tradotto frequentemente con il significato di "mano sinistra" (Brizio 292).Il verbo “stancare” significa affaticato, esausto o stanco ed infatti una recensione del libro di Kate Steinitz "Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura. A Bibliography" rivela come John Spencer ritenga che la traduzione più appropriata sia certamente "mano stanca" (Spencer, 201).
La Madonna dei fusi, 1504.Ai raggi infrarossi (IR) risulta, con notevole evidenza, che la mano sinistra del bambino presenta una sinpolidattilia non corretta, dopo una iniziale separazione del tessuto molle, ma priva di correzione scheletrica
Seconda argomentazione:
Leonardo ritratto da Raffaello, Botticelli, Botticini, Michelangelo con caratteristiche che confermano la malformazione congenita della mano
Leonardo viene descritto da Luca Pacioli come Il Mancino... La traduzione letterale latina conferma le scoperte di malformazioni congenite
Soprannominato "Il Mancino", vale a dire che si serve della mano sinistra (Bambach 31), l’etimologia del nome Leonardo è quella di un animale feroce e dotato di artigli. Alcuni sostengono che egli fosse soprannominato "Il Mancino" soltanto perché continuò a lavorare principalmente con la sua mano sinistra mentre non si fa mai cenno ad una sua possibile anomalia (Bambach 31)."La mano manca" significa letteralmente "mano mancante o offesa".Tuttavia, secondo indagini lessicografiche svolte dal Battaglia, in Italia dal 1975 al 1998, si può anche fare riferimento alla mano sinistra (Bambach 52)."Mancare" è il verbo italiano che indica “avere bisogno”, mentre il termine latino "mancus" viene tradotto come "difettoso di qualche arto" (Valpy, 248).
Terza argomentazione:
Il nome Leonardo significa dotato di artigli. Egli non nacque sotto il segno del Leone e nessuno dei suoi familiari più stretti portava il nome “Leonardo”
Aneddoti del Vasari, del Beattis lo descrivono come un uomo con un problema alla mano probabilmente derivante da un ictus.
Descrizioni storiche notano il suo stile unico nel vestire che lo aiutava con ogni probabilità a nascondere l’anomalia alla mano
Conclusione:
Leonardo potenzialmente nacque con sindattilia o polisindattilia della mano sinistra Sintesi di un’intervista realizzata in prima serata con Ben Sweeney dall’emittente americana ABC By Benedict Sweeney ... more -
Le macchine di Leonardo da Vinci
Uomo e macchina sono destinati a fondersi, una cosa che Leonardo - oggi - realizzerebbe in modo straordinario e in tempo bruciante, rispetto a ciò che già si fa.
Naturale e artificiale sono concetti obsoleti.
L'evoluzione della specie umana conduce nella direzione dell'uomo-macchina.
L'evoluzione delle macchine verso un mondo virtuale.
La meccanica domina la decodifica dei fenomeni.
Cos'è che sfugge alla filosofia della scienza? Uomo e macchina sono destinati a fondersi, una cosa che Leonardo - oggi - realizzerebbe in modo straordinario e in tempo bruciante, ri... more -
The Last Suppers
You've seen da Vinci's version. Take a look at all of these other versions. Fantastic!
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(ABC prime Time excerpt) New da Vinci Code? Leonardo Last Supper Christ webbed han...
For 500 years the the left hand of Christ in the Last Supper (1495) has been in front of everyone and never called what it is "syndactyly (webbed). The video shows an interview of Leonardo da Vinci researcher Ben Sweeney and Joseph Upton MD renowned hand surgeon discussing that hand and a detailed sketch of Leonardo's own anomalous left hand.
more information at
http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/leonardo-... For 500 years the the left hand of Christ in the Last Supper (1495) has been in front of everyone and never called what it is "sy... more -
Yale Daily News Research probes into possible Leonardo da Vinci handicap
http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/english-versions-2/Research_probes_into_possible_da_Vinci_handicap.shtml
Research probes into possible da Vinci handicap
By Maggie Reid
Contributor(s) YaleDailyNews.com
Along with the help of a former Yale researcher, a longtime admirer of Leonardo da Vinci is trying to challenge commonly accepted beliefs about the life of one of the greatest minds in history.
“I’m coming into the Leonardo world as an outsider,” Ben Sweeney said. “Many people in academia run the risk of getting locked into their ideas and stuck in their own perspective. I don’t come in with anything preconceived.”
Although Sweeney’s research runs the gamut on da Vinci — including art, science and math — his study on da Vinci’s anomalous left hand has been the subject of most interest. Through analysis of different da Vinci sketches, Sweeney developed the idea that the third and fourth fingers of da Vinci’s left hand were connected. This condition is called syndactyly, in which two or more digits are fused together.
Sweeney said that art historians have noticed issues with da Vinci’s hand in his sketches before, but it was always written off as the result of a stroke da Vinci had late in life. But Sweeney took his theory to Joseph Upton ’66, a former Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon who researched at the University, who agreed that it appears to be a syndactyly hand.
Upton, a current Harvard Medical School professor, said that although the theory may not be able to be verified — proof would involve an X-ray — he does believe Sweeney’s conclusion that the anomalies in Da Vinci’s work are not simply a result of a stroke.
The theory also looks at the depiction of Jesus’ left hand in “The Last Supper” and “Madonna with the Yarn-Winder.” Jesus’ left hand is misshapen in both of these paintings, Sweeney said. In “Madonna with the Yarn-Winder,” the disfiguration was discovered through the use of infrared technology, Sweeney said, and adds to his theory that da Vinci had some sort of obsession or preoccupation with syndactyly hands.
“Whenever the art world came across a misfigured hand, they considered it a mistake,” Sweeney said. “In my opinion, da Vinci didn’t make mistakes. He’s definitely portraying syndactyly hands.”
Robert Goldwyn, a professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said Sweeney is probably on the right track about da Vinci’s hand. The theory is interesting because Sweeney is looking at da Vinci in a way that nobody has in the last 500 years, Goldwyn said, most likely because of Sweeney’s unique position outside the field of academia.
“One art historian told me he never wanted to see me again after hearing my theory,” Sweeney said. “The art world wants to assume beauty over truth, and Leonardo knew that. He understood our mental state, even 500 years ago.”
With the help of experts such as Upton — who he is collaborating with on four different anatomical studies — Sweeney is working on about 40 different studies ranging from an examination of da Vinci’s health to the development of a mathematical form with which to study da Vinci art from a mathematical perspective. One of his most recent projects was the creation of a robot that da Vinci had created full plans for in his notes, Sweeney said. The “lost robot” has been traveling the country on tour and is currently on exhibit at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.
Sweeney said that he hopes the research will culminate with a book written . Getting the information out is a slow process because data can be misconstrued if its not presented clearly enough, he said, but he expects the results to make an impression on the art community.
“This is going to be the control-alt-delete of the art world,” Sweeney said. “There will be a concordance of his work, but this is really just the beginning.” http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/english-versions-2/Research_probes_into_possible_da_Vinci_handicap.shtml ... more -
Infrared of Leonardo's (Lansdowne) Madonna of the Yarnwinder depicts syndacty...
Excerpt from Leonardoshands website below:
http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/english-v...
The Madonna of the Yarnwinder 1504 (The Lansdowne Madonna) (Fig.12 A, B, C, D) by Leonardo has been extensively studied, including an IR-RGB (infrared-reflectographyby the National Institute of Applied Optics (INOA-CNR) in Florence, Italy.), color scan, mixed colorwith infrared and false color) scanning. Remarkably what is seen in the IR of the infant's left hand (Fig.12C, D &13) is an uncorrected synpolydactyly after early soft tissue separation but with no skeletal correction (Upton, Clinics 332). Interpreted as pentimenti and revisions of his compositions (Universal Leonardo website), it may have been that the infant portrayed had a congenital anomaly consistent with the syndactyl left hand of Christ depicted in the Last Supper.
Pursuit of scholarship demands that all of Leonardo da Vinci's original works be revisited by experts armed with the latest technology, including perhaps genetic studies of the pertinent parties including the genius himself. "The Weary Hand" depicts a confident, functioning syndactyly hand while The Last Supper and Yarnwinder show a left syndactyly Christ. Perfection is no longer limited to the realm of the "norm". Excerpt from Leonardoshands website below: http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/english-versions/Il_Mancino.shtml ... more -
Leonardo da Vinci's lost robot knight on display
Fairly recently in the study of Leonardo da Vinci, it was theorized and determined that he built robots. Famous roboticist Mark Rosheim submitted a paper with his proof to the Leonardo Society. . It was accepted and he was comissioned to recreate it for the BBC. It is designed to sit stand and move arms and uses two hand cranks, It has been displayed around the USA and is normally on display in San Diego Museum of Man.
Even Bill Gates referenced it in his article about robots in every home and Dan Brown (in Da Vinci Code) uses excerpts from Rosheims paper to describe a miniature version of this robot.
There are many photos at http://www.leonardoshands.com/artman2/publish/leonardo-...
Also check out video and research showing that Leonardo depicted Christ in Last Supper with a syndactyly (webbed) left hand on Current as well as at www.Leonardoshands.com Fairly recently in the study of Leonardo da Vinci, it was theorized and determined that he built robots. Famous roboticist Mark Roshe... more -
The Lost Leonardo Da Vinci
In the art world, there is perhaps no mystery more enduring than the fate of a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest mind of the Renaissance. It was an immense unfinished mural known as "The Battle of Anghiari." For centuries, it has been assumed the work was destroyed, painted over or simply faded away long ago.
Now, after three decades of battling skepticism and bureaucratic resistance, an art detective named Maurizio Seracini believes he's close to solving the Leonardo mystery by suggesting the mural hasn't been lost at all, but is right where it’s always been - for 500 hundred years. In the art world, there is perhaps no mystery more enduring than the fate of a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest min... more -
Mysterious Da Vinci images revealed with mirrors
Strange images are revealed by applying mirrors to Da Vinci's works. Some scholars suggest the images reveal biblical figures while others, brilliantly, reckon the mysterious hidden figure in one of his paintings could be Darth Vader.
Yep, Darth Vader.
Interestingly, Da Vinci invented his own style of backwards writing that needed a mirror to be read, so there could be a grain of truth in this. Strange images are revealed by applying mirrors to Da Vinci's works. Some scholars suggest the images reveal biblical figures whi... more -
German Experts Crack Mona Lisa Model Mystery
German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.
Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.
But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover, his mother or the artist himself.
Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world. German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vi... more
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