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Scientists are very close to the discovery of the remains of Caravaggio
 

Italian scientists who search for burial of the artist Caravaggio and said that very close to identifying the remains, reports the Associated Press.

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According to head a team of researchers Vincent Silvano (Silvano Vinceti), among all sets of human bones exhumed, only one may be the remains of the artist. Radiocarbon dating showed that the remains belonged to men aged 37 to 45 years, who died about the same time, when, and Caravaggio. Painter at the time of death was nearly 39 years. The exhumation was carried out in the Tuscan town of Porto Ercole (Porto Ercole), where he died on the artist.

In the bones was discovered high levels of lead and other metals that may be associated with painting.

Nevertheless, the results are inconclusive. To determine whether the remains belong to Caravaggio, the scientists will conduct DNA tests, their results will be announced in the next two weeks. Previously, researchers took DNA samples from fellow artist, are likely to be his descendants.

Caravaggio died in 1610, remains to this day is officially considered to be unfound. Causes of death is also not known for certain: among versions - fever, syphilis, murder.

Source http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/16/caravaggio/

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In Germany, dismantled sculpture naked Pope

The authorities of the German city of Konstanz on Lake Constance dismantled installed at the city railway station statue of a naked Pope by the sculptor Peter Lenk (Peter Lenk), said the Swiss NZZ-Online.

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The figure of a nude pontiff height of two meters and weighing 700 pounds is a fragment of another famous sculpture Lenka "Empire", which in 1993 was installed at the entrance to the city's harbor of Constanta.

Made of concrete "Empire" 9 meters high and weighing 18 tons is a figure of medieval whore with their hands. The hands she perched two naked men: one in the imperial crown, the other in the papal tiara.

The first male figure depicts the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire Sigismund, second - Pope Martin V. All the sculpture "The Empire" refers to Honore de Balzac's short story "The Beauty of Empires", which tells how a courtesan by the name of the Empire, taking advantage of the passions and weaknesses of the Catholic clergy, was able to influence decisions XVI Ecumenical Council of Constance.

Commenting on the decision of the tourist bureau of Constanta, on the territory of which was equipped with a separate figure of a naked Pope, the sculptor Peter Lenk explained its adoption of the provincial local officials. Moreover, in his opinion, the Bureau could exert pressure from the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union and the Catholic Church. They are, according to the sculptor, fear that because of the statue of a naked current pontiff Pope Benedict XVI may cancel his visit to Konstanz, scheduled for 2014, when the deal turns Constance.

Source http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/14/papst/

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In Germany, dismantled sculpture naked Pope

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