05 Apr 07
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Has snopes ever said anything was true? I do think it is a good tool for trying to verify things I hear.
My Mom told me she heard that in the Da Vinci painting the model for Jesus was the same person as the model for Judas. That the man had been in prison for 20 years, and had turned to crime and had aged badly.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lastsupper.asp
05 Apr 07
Originally posted by Ice ColdNo. Snopes is for debunking urban legends and general garbage that gets passed around as true.
Has snopes ever said anything was true? I do think it is a good tool for trying to verify things I hear.
My Mom told me she heard that in the Da Vinci painting the model for Jesus was the same person as the model for Judas. That the man had been in prison for 20 years, and had turned to crime and had aged badly.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lastsupper.asp
In those days art was as much a job as anything else, people went to "schools" where they copied well-known or respected artists over and over to learn the "correct" way to sketch/paint various parts of the human body (along with everything else.) When they had progressed far enough they were allowed to work on the master's paintings and such (sometimes to the point that things being produced by the master hadn't been touched by him at all,) and when they had progressed far enough they would begin to take their own comissions. Models were rarely used for anything. These days any jackass with a paint brush can call himself an artist...
Back to the point - it's highly unlikely that anything in this story is even remotely true...
05 Apr 07
Originally posted by st00p1dfac3Yes considering it took him 3 years to paint it.
it's highly unlikely that anything in this story is even remotely true...
My Mom read the story in a paint by numbers kit.
You would think that and matchbook covers would be credible sources. 😉