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Re:The Location of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by wl on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:11AM (#20183628)
I never liked the explanation for the crystal orb. Oh, Leonardo knew about optics, but he painted the orb naïvely to show some sort of miracle.
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Re:The Location of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by HiroshiSan on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:30PM (#20184825)
Why don't you like that explanation? Leonardo was obsessed with detail, and he would study things intensely, it's not that much of a stretch.
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Re:The Location of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by anoncake on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:00PM (#20186634)
Which is why you'd expect an orb painted by Leonardo to have the correct optics.
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Re:The Location of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by HiroshiSan on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:00PM (#20187633)
Wasn't the orb supposed to symbolize Jesus performing another miracle by not having the light warp the fabric?
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Re:The Location of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by wl on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:24PM (#20190691)
That's exactly the argument I'm dismissing. It's not much of a miracle for the orb to transmit light as one would naïvely expect. Rather, it suggests that somebody didn't do their homework.
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