10 Great Works Of Art With Incredible Secret Meanings
Ever since Dan Brown wrote The Da Vinci Code , the Internet has been awash with people trying to solve the “mysteries” of great art. From aliens in Renaissance paintings to countless conspiracies involving the Mona Lisa , there’s been no dumb stone left unturned. But not all theories about a work’s meaning are so openly nuts. Some manage to be both completely convincing and utterly mind-blowing. 10 A Satyr Mourning Over A Nymph Actually Shows A Brutal Murder Photo via Wikipedia Painted by Piero di Cosimo in 1495, A Satyr Mourning Over A Nymph supposedly depicts a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses . In that story, Procris is accidentally killed in the woods when her hunter husband Cephalus mistakes her for a wild beast and hurls a spear through her. It’s a typical choice of scene for a Renaissance artist, with only one problem. A close examination proves there’s no way Cosimo’s Procris could have been killed by accident. Accor...