For centuries, creating masterpieces of painting, artists interpreted historical events in their own way, capturing in them what their contemporaries did not notice. Often in the paintings of medieval masters, not only biblical characters were depicted, but also strange objects that were clearly extraterrestrial in origin.
Our ancestors were aliens?
In different parts of the planet, there are ancient rock paintings depicting humanoid creatures. significantly different from modern homo sapiens. Thus, on one of the slopes of the Goghama ridge in Armenia, several images of robots were found in a headset and with a screen on their chest. And on the icons of the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin. not far from Yerevan, strange capsules can be seen, similar to aircraft with pilots inside.
The myth of the extraterrestrial origin of our civilization is reflected in the epic of many peoples. UFO information can be found in ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, Indian, and Tibetan manuscripts. Ancient Greek and Roman scientists wrote about them.
It is believed that the very first rock carvings of UFOs were made 10-15 thousand years ago in the caves of China, Spain (La Passiega), France (No-y-Fon de Pzm), as well as in the Nazca desert in South America.
Numerous historical artifacts over the centuries have inspired artists to incorporate scientifically inexplicable phenomena into the subjects of their paintings.
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UFO watching saints
Two frescoes from the Vysokie Dečany monastery in Kosovo, painted around 1350, are called “Crucifixion” and “Resurrection.” In the upper part of the “Crucifixion”, symmetrically from the cross, two objects are depicted, similar to vehicles with pilots inside, flying over Golgotha. Resurrection”Jesus Christ himself is inside a capsule that resembles a rocket.
Another, no less mysterious painting, painted in the 15th century and stored in Florence, is presumably the brush of Domenico Ghirlandaio. The painting is called "Madonna with St. Giovannino". Madonna gazes tenderly at the two babies, and a strange object is depicted in the sky directly above her left shoulder, emitting rays. A man with a dog is depicted behind her in the distance. Standing on the hillside, he looks in amazement at the mysterious celestial phenomenon. Next to the man there is a certain object that resembles either a bush or a mysterious creature. Maybe the artist really wanted to portray the supernatural form of life as it appeared to him?
Strange objects on canvases
In fairness, it should be noted that in Florence at that time it was not customary to depict objects of divine origin, therefore an oval object sparkling in the sky could well be an allegory of an angel or even God himself. In addition, the image of a man with a dog is often found on other medieval canvases as the personification of the good news to the shepherds about the birth of Jesus.
The images of people sitting inside aircraft on medieval frescoes also lend themselves to a logical explanation. Perhaps they represent, according to the tradition of that time, the sun (man) or the moon (woman).
The painting "The Annunciation" by Carlo Crivelli in 1486 depicts the Madonna kneeling in a room, and a bright beam of light falls on her head from the sky. The beam comes from a disc-shaped object that hovers in the gap between the clouds.
The most famous painting, causing a lot of controversy on the topic of contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations, is the painting "The Glorification of the Holy Communion", painted by the Italian artist Ventura Salimbeni in 1600 for St. Peter's Basilica. The fresco depicts God the Father and Jesus Christ sitting on clouds, and between them is a sphere, about the origin of which scientists have been arguing for many centuries. The fact is that strange spokes are attached to the sides of the sphere, similar to antennas, to which God the Father and Jesus are holding. And at the bottom, an object protrudes from the sphere, similar to either a camera lens or a telescope.
Hidden symbols or alien ships?
The question arises why mysterious flying objects were so often depicted in medieval paintings?
The fact is that in the period from the 15th to the 19th centuries, any work of art was subjected to strict church censorship. First of all, everything was limited to religious themes, and the artists had to explain the depicted from the point of view of divine nature. For example, depicting an object in the sky, they said that it was an angel carrying the message of the Lord.
It is also believed that mysterious objects are actually just clouds. It is also possible that the modern viewer is trying to replace an artistic image that he does not understand with something that is familiar to his mind.
But let's not forget that many artists were free-thinkers and strove, even in a disguised form, to convey the truth on their canvases. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that they wanted to show their admiration for events that are clearly extraterrestrial in origin.
Battle of Nuremberg
In addition to the paintings, which still cause controversy among critics, there are those whose subjects really have historical confirmation. For example, a woodcut (woodcut) by the German master Hans Glaser depicts an event widely known in ufology. The inhabitants of the whole city became witnesses of it.
At dawn on April 14, 1561, flying cylinders appeared high in the sky over Nuremberg, from which hundreds of multi-colored objects of various shapes, like balls, discs, crosses and tubes, scattered in all directions. A real battle broke out over the city, which ended with the falling of flying objects to the ground and turning them into steam. Instead, a huge black object appeared in the sky, resembling the point of a spear. A document describing this historic event is kept at the Swiss Central Library in Zurich.
Mysterious observers
Looking at some medieval paintings, one involuntarily asks the question: what did the author actually see or what did he mean by this?
For example, in Art De Gelder's painting The Baptism of Christ, written in 1710, four golden rays fall on Jesus Christ receiving baptism from John the Baptist, emanating from a disk-shaped object soaring high in the sky.
The tapestry "Summer's Triumph", created in Bruges, Belgian province, circa 1538, and kept in the Bavarian National Museum, depicts a 15th century local political event. It depicts the promenade of the local elite, but the development of the holiday is monitored from aircraft on the horizon. Who are these observers?
Perhaps medieval artists drew inspiration from ancient Sumerian texts, or maybe they depicted what they saw themselves.
Sergey Sukhanov. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" № 16 2010
