A curse on all your paintings: the secret magic of Renaissance art
The ancient Egyptians were not the only ones who created art for magical purposes
Jonathan Jones - 4 November 2010
Magic is halfway between science and religion. Hear me out, secularists, hear me out. Religion is concerned with a spiritual realm beyond the visible world. Science only accepts – for practical purposes and, if you are Richard Dawkins and others, for philosophical purposes, too – the existence of that visible world, and attempts to discover its nature and how it works. But magic is the desire to use invisible forces to change the visible world.
Works of art that we look at today in museums, as if they were solely intended for mute aesthetic contemplation, were often made for magical purposes. This is clearly true of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, but it also applies to art made thousands of years later in Europe. In Renaissance Florence, portraits of traitors were often painted on walls in public places – after one conspiracy, no less an artist than Sandro Botticelli portrayed the conspirators on the Piazza della Signoria. These were not merely “wanted” posters. They were visual curses: paintings that set out to injure their victims, to invoke malevolent magic. In a similar way, when a Venetian Doge betrayed the Republic of Venice his portrait in the Doge’s Palace was blanked out. A modern regime might simply remove his picture: by preserving it over the centuries, as a blank space, Venice did something more potent and spooky.
Tags: Art, Hermeticism, Renaissance, Symbolism
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And so it goes on today with Hollywood’s visual artists using their magic to enchant, distract (even curse) the masses into a dumb stupor, and enables the cryptocracy’s devious plans to be hidden in plain sight and looked upon as merely “art” or “fantasy” and nothing more, even though they actually contain the blueprints for America’s destruction. Is it really too farfetched or incredible to believe that the billion-dollar “psy-op” industry is part of this “open” conspiracy?