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Pinklefish said:Those things on it's head look like horns to me - like those big curly goat horns.
Probably an image of the devil.
Originally posted by Evilsprout
The BBC story has a quote that some boffin thinks it may challenge Disney's copyright over the Mickey image... could this actually be true?!
No doubt they'll wriggle out of it by saying the fresco has only recently been renovated and therefore the mouse/weasel was unrecognisable when Mickey was born.Evilsprout said:The BBC story has a quote that some boffin thinks it may challenge Disney's copyright over the Mickey image... could this actually be true?!
Here's the fresco image that resembles Mickey Mouse.
SOURCE: BBC article on this find:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2481749.stm
toook me a while to figure out the reference, so...not me.Does anyone else read the title and think: "You're so fine/ You're so fine, you're on my mind/ Old Mickey"?
Just me?
maximus otter
Does anyone else read the title and think: "You're so fine/ You're so fine, you're on my mind/ Old Mickey"?
Just me?
maximus otter
Definitely not a weasel - the head's the wrong shape.
It looks like a human in an animal mask, with a hood with ears attached.
Carole
Spookily, I was chatting with Carole on Facebook just now!
Could you take forum good wishes? I've read and enjoyed her posts
Christophorus on the south wall of the parish church of Malta, Carinthia.
Next to the saint's left shin is a remarkable mythical creature, which I placed in a frame in a close-up. The text of the Federal Monument Office reads:
'' The 7.5 m high fresco from around 1300 shows the representation of the giant with the baby Jesus on his shoulder. At the feet of Christophorus are various mythical creatures, of which the crowned female with the double fish tail and the mermaid blowing into a horn belong to the usual repertoire of medieval representations of Christ. Since one of the mythical animals bears an astonishing resemblance to Mickey Mouse, its depiction made a media journey around the world, without the imposing representation of Christ himself and the church with its excellent fresco furnishings and furnishings in the media hardly having met with such interest. ''
I'm unable to decide whether the "Mickey" figure is the same as "the crowned female with the double fish tail."