The painting by Botticelli found drugs

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British botanists from the Royal Gardens at Kew and help art historians to interpret the picture of Botticelli's Venus and Mars "(1483), reports The Times. At the request of David Bellingham (David Bellingham) from the Institute of the Arts Sotheby's, they have identified a plant, which holds one of the painted satyrs. It turned out to lure ordinary (Datura stramonium).
Datura - poisonous plant that can cause narcotic intoxication and hallucinations. In ancient times it was also used as an aphrodisiac. According to Bellingham, the symptoms of drug intoxication are visible in the figure of Mars. Since it is known that intoxication causes the person to feel the heat and take off their clothes. It also causes fainting.
According to art historian, the picture stored in the National Gallery in London, depicts Venus and Mars, but beneath them means more and Adam and Eve. Bellingham believes that dope symbolizes the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. He is often portrayed as the apple, but the Bible does not describe in detail the fruit.
(Lenta.Ru)

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Now, at least to understand the logical link with Mars in "otklyuchke" ...

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http://http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura


  Datura grows freely, for example, in the Crimea. In Koktebel I showed it growing directly on the waterfront .

  I saw a man who he had eaten too much, he talked with him two persons completely different voices. At times, barking like a dog and kept trying to go somewhere. He was tied to a tree because tired of constantly keep .

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painting by Sandro Botticelli's "Venus and Mars.
The size of the painting 69 x 173,5 cm, wood, tempera. The composition has an elongated horizontal shape like the painted covers for a wedding chest - Cassone, or panel, which was inserted into the furniture, in which case it could be a bed of newlyweds, as picture was done for the wedding of someone from a family of Vespucci. The program works composed humanist, she relied on astrological interpretation of myths, characteristic of the Neoplatonists, where the planets were in a moralizing aspect: a tender and affectionate Venus dominates the aggressive Mars, softening his ferocity. Being designed for the marriage, the artist's painting served as a kind of Frivolous compliment the young wife of a clan Vespucci.
In the compositional scheme of "Venus and Mars" by Sandro Botticelli used a bas-relief from the same ancient sarcophagus, which served as a model for the head of a centaur in the movie "Pallas Athena and the Centaur". The artist translated it into the language of painting with the rhythm of the linear circuits, surprisingly graceful in their repetitions and overlaps. The color in the painting by Sandro Botticelli different elegant restraint. The central scene, which is based on a balance of rest and tension, surrounded by frolicking young satyr. Pacific accompaniment she heard the muffled tones in the transfer of Nature. The painting can be seen, and allegory (Venus Humanitas): Venus (humanistic thought) is beneficial to their strife and unbridled element, taming the rough nature (Mars). In addition, in accordance with the humanistic views, from the union of Venus and Mars - the love and struggle - born Harmony.

As they say: women are from Venus, men from Mars.
A common theme. In Veronese is he, in Poussin, Guercino, David ...
And in the painting by Piero di Cosimo Mars too fell asleep.
Venus and Mars. 1498. London, National Gallery.

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Not only in the Crimea. Here in eastern Ukraine, ubiquitous plant is gorgeous .... .. Dark carved leaves and huge white flowers gramofonchikami .. The smell is really strong, sweet, luscious ... if you stay close, but still a little sniff, then a headache for the whole day guaranteed ... As a child, grandmother scolded us when we festered full Carmathians spiny fruit and breaks it for the extraction of their seeds ... And God forbid that took them into his mouth ...
But the most interesting, for some reason, local fruits lure called the "cat's egg." Why? "And even they themselves did not know, called, and all ..

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Now we are thrown in the flowerbeds dope .. imported from Holland domesticated, seems to be as dekoratvny .. plant the flowers are larger and twice as many of the wild ..