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Fri Aug 3
Salimbeni’s Glorification of the Eucharist What is this strange object depicted in this painting from 1600 in a Tuscan church? Some say it looks like Sputnik or some other modern device with antennae and a camera lens. But is the 21st century brain just supplying a likely matching pattern from what we know?

Salimbeni’s Glorification of the Eucharist

What is this strange object depicted in this painting from 1600 in a Tuscan church? Some say it looks like Sputnik or some other modern device with antennae and a camera lens. But is the 21st century brain just supplying a likely matching pattern from what we know?