Vegetarianism in Art

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And Jesus said:
"And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For verily I say unto you: he who kills - kills himself, eating the flesh of slain - eat of the body of death".
(the gospel of peace)

 
Once one of the auction buffets, as usual looking for a few vegetarian dishes and the corner of my eye watching the "collectors" --bags and oligarchs, knead Freestuff delicacies - I suddenly realized that they just walked off the sculpture Paolo Trubetskoy "Necrocannibals.
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It was the only "software" (known) thing sculptor. At the bottom of the summary: contro natura (against nature). I then visited one - possibly quite controversial - idea: vegetarianism makes art wiser, more philosophical and kind ...
Sam Prince Troubetzkoy, a staunch vegetarian, almost no distinction between man and animal,
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and its riders - is, in the words of the sculptor, "the animals mounted on other animals" (in the best sense of the word). So, maybe the monument to Alexander III was not in favor with Nicholas servants and senior clergy.
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Artists-vegetarians in general were mostly outcasts - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, both Roerichs - all are countless. But they were mostly pioneers new dimensions in art.
Vivid example of this - Nikolai Ge. Not only art, but also the life he maintained his own special way: the paintings did not sell, he lived only by the fruits of his labor. I think the first time in Russian, and possibly also in the world of painting NN Ge created the image of "simplification of Christ" (forgive me all the guardians of the Orthodox canon), very close "vegetarian" aesthetics, which has caused outrage, not only those in power but also the artistic community.
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Here Ge largely ahead of his contemporaries, giving the Christian theme of a new language - the language of expressionism, or, rather, "protoekspressionizma.
Passionate vegetarian were Ilya Repin and his wife, NB Nordman, and their "Penates" have the same artistic mecca, what was the "Clear field" for writers.
Fair to say that among the critics of vegetarianism was also a lot of geniuses. Let us recall the brilliant story of Chekhov "Pecheneg". However, Dr. Astrov of "Uncle Vanya", one of the favorite characters of Chekhov and, indeed, his self-portrait, still did not eat meat.
Among vegetarians there were also notorious villains: Hitler, for example.
And yet ...
In the Middle Ages vegetarianism was considered heresy. Have we gone far since then?