The analyses of the Botticelli's painting "The Annunciation"

The Annunciation" c. 1485-92
(Metropolitan museum of art)
(Picture I)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

"The Annunciation" is a painting, what Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi  (1445-1510)) painted in c. 1485-92 is one of the masterpieces of religious arts, and it's the remarkable thing in the history of arts. The reason, why Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi used the name "Sandro Botticelli" in his arts might be caused that this man painted the religious painting, and that's why he had to cover his identity. Those paintings were the politically sensitive thing, and if the painting didn't please the customer, would that cause the prosecution in the inquisition, and in the worst case death, if the inquisition would translate that the painting was blasphemy or it predicts the death of the ruler of the country or even the pope.


In the painting "The Annunciation" Botticelli portraits Virgin Mary, but there are some details, what people might never see. In the painting, the character of the woman is painted in two times, and that's why this image is remarkable. The detail means that in the painting, the Virgin Mary has two roles the role as an angel and the role as the pious woman. Many times I have thought, why Botticelli painted this painting that way, that there is like two Virgin Mary's in the space, what is separated by the wall.


And this thing should create thoughts in the head of the people. The meaning of that art is to warn, that the powerful men have powerful spouses. In this case, the woman or person, who sits next to the men could be even the secretary of the pope. And that means if something hurts that person, or somebody leave that lady without service, would that told probably direct to the pope, and that could cause things, what nobody wants to face.


The idea of this painting is very simple, the angels are walking on Earth in the form of the human, and they would tell everything to the God. The Angel-figures are meaning messenger, and there are many translations about those figures. Angels could mean the nuns or monks, who told everything to the Pope, if somebody played or did something, what was not allowed. The meaning of the angel figure is to remember that somebody always tells the things, what should not be told.


And that's why this figure means simply the message. But it meant the undercover surveillance, and also protectors, who secretly protected especially the children. Because if the parents would humiliate their children they must remember, that in some day own children are stronger than their parents. And this is the reason, why the angels are often portrayed to stand next to the beds of the children. Somebody always sees the injuries, what the humiliation caused. The angel figure is very common in the medieval art, and it has many roles in the world of religious art, what is made for the official use of the church and their officials.

Picture I:  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459016

The weapons and tradition

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Below this text is a link to famous traditional German songs from the 17th. century. There is a series of portraits of that time art, and here I must mention, that I don't have copyrights for that video, but you might push the link and watch it by self. The film consists the interesting paintings from that period, and as you might seem, those paintings consist the introductions, how the weapons should handle, and of course the warnings and codes, what people who fought in 30-years war should afraid.


The rifles in those paintings seems normal weapons, but they are made by extremely strong materials, what means that they were so-called "hand cannons".  Those extremely powerful flintlock muskets could penetrate walls of stone houses, and that made them extremely dangerous.  Also, the crossbow was loaded with windlass, and that tells something, how powerful those weapons were. The strong bow would give extremely high power for arrows, what would send to the targets.


Also, there are paintings of the men, who use heavy swords. Those extremely long swords were so devastating, that they could cut the horse in two pieces. But in the 30-years war, those swords were also equipped with rifles, what would make them more powerful. The back of the sword was sometimes equipped with the small pistol, what could be used when the blade is turned upwards, and the opponent was not always noticed the pistol.


There are stories of the "singing swords", what was equipped with the instrument, what keeps the sound, what caused pain. The blade has targeted the sound and the target was screaming with pain. After that, the inventor named Alessandro Volta created the sword where was the Volta's statue in the band. That sword gave electric shocks to the other persons if Volta used that sword against other people.


There were, of course, the "Black magic", that meant that the swords could load with electricity, what was created by using static electricity. In fact in the modern military sometimes have been tested the catapults and even the crossbows, what are equipped with dynamos. The fast rotating dynamos can store the high voltage electricity for the arrows, and that could make them excellent electromagnetic weapons, what could damage the electronic equipment.


Those arrows would not deliver their electricity, because the wooden structure would be a good electric insulator. And during the 30-years war, the crossbows were equipped with muskets, because that gave the shooter the change for two fast shots.   Also sometimes recon troops have damaged the electric high voltage lines by shooting arrows, where was connected the electric wires. When the wires have touched the cables, that can cause damages to the power circuits.


Modern people have given also some new names for the paintings. In the 4:41 the painting was renamed as the "MAV attack". But the purpose is only to tell, that people are talking everything, what those men have done. And picture what is at the 3:38 is renamed as "Knight gets equipment from the fourth dimension". The meaning of that picture is only the remember that the men could have secret orders for some situations. There are many interesting details in the film, what is in the link, what is below the text. The meaning of the cloud is, of course, bad news. And in some pictures, the meaning is the scare the people, that somebody would see, what people are doing, and if those men were drunk, they were killed very easily.


https://youtu.be/D1BMiVKzKp0