Classical statues in modern day clothing by Alexis Persani
The Tryggevælde Runestone, dates to about 900 AD. Before coming to Copenhagen in 1810, the runestone was moved in 1555 from a barrow to the Tryggevælde estate on Zealand, Denmark. It is unknown what the cause of the holes in the stone was.
Similar to a few others also found in Sweden, the inscription ends with a curse against anyone who was to move or destroy the runestone.
English Translation:
A Ragnhildr, Ulfr’s sister, placed this stone and made this mound, and this ship(-setting), in memory of her husband Gunnulfr, a clamorous man, Nerfir’s son. Few will now be born better than him.
A warlock(?) be he who damages(?) this stone
or drags it (away) from here.
There has been considerable disagreement regarding one of the words of the curse, which is usually translated to either “warlock,” “wretch,” or “outcast.” Warlock is generally the most widely accepted.
Courtesy & currently located at the National Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. Photos taken by Skadinaujo.
“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”
Interesting.
also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope
the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him
but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high
and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair
what a badass
It amuses me to this day how much Michelangelo hated his job
He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson
why does no one ever mention that Michelangelo was gay too?
~ The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Oscar Wilde (via kamikaze-heart)
