To: Michael Goldsberry; jdm; livius
To bless Mohamed who's already there? I don't think so. Medieval and Renaissance Christian and secular artists had no religious restrictions regarding depictions of Mohammed, and were free to show his face and body in their entirety.
This picture is of an early Renaissance fresco in Bologna's Church of San Petronio, created by Giovanni da Modena and depicting Mohammed being tortured in Hell.
The fresco is in an inaccessible part of the church and is now only visible at an angle from a distance; this old black-and-white image is one of the few official photos ever taken that shows a straight frontal view of the figures.
54 posted on
09/17/2006 3:06:22 PM PDT by
NYer
("That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah." Hillel)
To: NYer
Thank you for posting this image of the fresco.
To: NYer
Mohammed is the one on the right, correct?
120 posted on
09/17/2006 3:55:01 PM PDT by
Sender
(Earth: 4.5 billion years old. Islam: 1400 years old. Nukes: 61 years old. Stay tuned.)
To: NYer
Guess they didn't get the memo that said there are to be no depictions of the Mohammed. Oh yeah, it hadn't been written yet. Have to wait a few hundred years.
To: NYer
Hopefully, the Islamonazis won't find out about this church, because it would suffer the same fate as the Buddhas in Afghanistan.
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