AAAHHHHH!!!!
Art Neuendorffer
Sun Aug 22, 2004 08:58 AM ET
By Inger Sethov
<<OSLO (Reuters) - Armed robbers on Sunday stole a version of Norwegian
artist Edvard Munch's "The Scream," regarded by many as his most important
work and an icon of existentialist angst, from an Oslo museum.
In a dramatic daytime raid, two masked robbers forced an employee at the
Munch Museum to take down a version of "The Scream" and another important
work "Madonna" at gunpoint. They escaped from the scene in a car driven by a
third man.
The pictures, worth millions of dollars, were cut from their frames which
were found discarded and broken later in another part of the city.
"A female employee of the museum was threatened with a handgun and forced to
take down two pictures," Hilde Walsoe, chief inspector at Oslo police
station, said. "They took two paintings, 'The Scream' and 'Madonna."'
Police cordoned off the area, informed Interpol and alerted airports and
border crossings in the hunt to track down the thieves who snatched the
Munch masterpieces. A helicopter hovered around the area in search of clues
to the getaway.
Art experts said Munch produced four versions of "The Scream." The stolen
version consists of tempera and pastel on board.
Another and perhaps better-known version of "The Scream" was stolen from
Norway's National Gallery in a break-in in February 1994, on the opening day
of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
A ransom was refused by the government but the picture was retrieved several
months later and remains in that gallery.
The other two versions are in storage at the Munch Museum.
Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944 and who was a founder of modern
expressionism, made several copies of his key works, including "The Scream."
In the foreground of the picture, on a road with railings, is a figure hands
raised to his head, eyes staring, mouth agape. Further back are two men in
top hats and behind them a landscape of fjord and hills in wavy lines
against a deep red sunset.
Last year, academics put the vivid skyscape down to a great eruption of the
Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia which created extraordinary twilights in
Europe in late 1883 and early 1884.
A seminal expressionist picture, art experts say it symbolizes modern man
seized by an attack of anguish. A black and white poster version of the
image became a best-seller worldwide.>>
Art Neuendorffer
>
> Last year, academics put the vivid skyscape down to a great eruption
> of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia which created extraordinary
> twilights in Europe in late 1883 and early 1884.
>
> A seminal expressionist picture, art experts say it symbolizes modern
> man seized by an attack of anguish. A black and white poster
> version of the image became a best-seller worldwide.>>
news:<4ec4c9f5.03071...@posting.google.com>...
> "Da Vinci painting stolen from Scottish castle
>
> A Leonardo da Vinci painting, the Madonna with the Yarnwinder,
> has been stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland.
>
> Madonna with the Yarnwinder
> Police said the painting was stolen at about 11am when thieves, posing
> as visitors to the castle, overpowered a female guide and took it
> from where it was displayed in the castle's staircase hall.
>
> Drumlanrig Castle, in Dumfries and Galloway, is the home of
> the Duke of Buccleuch, one of Scotland's richest landowners.
>
> It houses one of the finest art collection in Britain, including
> masterpieces Rembrandt and Holbein, two of which are on display
> in the same hall from where the da Vinci was taken.
>
> The Madonna with the Yarnwinder, dated to 1501, was intended
> for the secretary of Louis XII of France and shows the infant Jesus
> holding the yarnwinder shaped as a cross to symbolise the Passion
> and his future death.
>
> The original was thought to have been lost in France until experts
> confirmed the Drumlanrig painting as the work of da Vinci in 1986.
>
> Detectives said they are looking for four men seen driving a white
> Volkswagen Golf Gti in the area around the time the painting was
> stolen.
>
> They also released descriptions of two men seen near the castle
> about 5ft 10 tall, slim and clean shaven.
> Madonna with the Yarnwinder - Drumlanrig Castle"
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http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo29.html
http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/yarnwinder.html
with the Distaff. Leonardo did complete this very small painting but the
original has probably been lost. Several copies still exist and there is
strong speculation that two of these are from the hand of Leonardo himself,
but this is still the subject of some debate and they could just have easily
come from talented pupils. The original work can be securely dated at 1501
as a letter from April of that year mentions Leonardo is working
shows the winder as shaped like a cross; this symbolises the Passion of
Christ and His future death. It appears that Mary wants to pull the Child
away from the symbol of His future, but even she is powerless to prevent the
Crucifixion which is part of His destiny. Of the two works one is very green
whilst the other is quite blue; the landscapes also differ significantly
with one showing a vicious mountain range beneath a vivid blue sky
St. John the Baptist by drawing dozens of studies of little children. Most
of his children appear between nine and eighteen months, all are shown
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"Nor is [Dulcinea del Toboso] one-eyed or humpbacked,
but *straighter* than a Guadarrama SPINDLE"
<<The office of Nautonnier or Navigator, is symbolized by the boat
of Isis. "Isis holds in her right hand a small sailing ship with the
SPINDLE of a spinning wheel for its mast. From the top of the mast
projects a water jug, its handle shaped like a serpent swelled with
venom. This indicates that Isis steers the bark of life, full of
troubles and miseries, on the stormy ocean of Time. The SPINDLE
symbolizes the fact that she spins and cuts the thread of life.">>
Symbolical Philosophy
of the Prieure de Sion took the name Jean in succession. One of the
Grand Masters on the list, Leonardo da Vinci, displayed a strong
interest in John the Baptist. Another, Sir Isaac Newton,
became preoccupied with the writings of the Apocalypse,
then attributed to John the Evangelist.>>
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Jonson told Drummond his arms were "three SPINDLEs or RHOMBi."
RHOMB, n. [L. RHOMBus, Gr. ??? RHOMB, a spinning top, magic wheel,
fr. ??? to turn or whirl round, perhaps akin to E. wrench: cf. F. RHOMBe.]
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_The Republic_ by Plato (360 B.C.)
(M)yth (O)f (E)r
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9313/plato/18.txt
All the souls had now chosen their lives, and they went in the order
of their choice to Lachesis, who sent with them the genius whom they
had severally chosen, to be the guardian of their lives and the
fulfiller of the choice: this genius led the souls first to Clotho,
and drew them within the revolution of the SPINDLE
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Art Neuendorffer