I'll post a few monument photos later, but today we went to the National Gallery of Art and met up with VUBOQ, who was much better at taking photos of us all than I was and who will more than likely be blogging about it in the not-so-distant future. What I will share, though, are some interesting artworks depicting the Flying Spaghetti Monster through the ages. First are two photos from an ancient Roman mural depicting a celebration known as an FSManalia.
The God Incarnate:
And a worshipper carrying a plate of spaghetti with meatballs:
And here's one of St. Francis receiving stigmata directly from FSM. Most paintings of this event actually show them coming from a giant flame in the sky, likely meant to depict FSM covered in a spicy arrabiata sauce, but in this particular image you can actually make out his noodly appendages.
And since I have to get up super-early tomorrow, I'll end this art history lesson here. More later!
8 comments:
FSM giving stigmata with his noodly appendages! Who knew?
Spooky! ;)
Spooky! ;)
Thanks for the lesson,teach.
Shoot! I was going through the museum with the wrong tour guide! Grindr was only pointing out gay guys of interest in the museum. Oh well.
And here I thought it was a nudibranch with a lot of weird appendages...
DC can be quite interesting. I've lived in MD for 30 years now and every time we go to the Smithsonian, for example, it's a new experience!
I wonder, did you have an opportunity to visit the MD Sheep and Wool Festival? It was about an hour away in Howard County. If not, hope you all can make it next year:)
Take care,
joan a/k/a fsk
Now I'm craving spaghetti.
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