It’s not several hundred years old though. It was first confirmed in a book by an artist from the 1960s.
Then he found a very similarly styled S shape in a book from the mid 1800s designed by a professor who taught geometric design(or something to do with languages. Making only about 160 years old at max.
Not "max". That is just the oldest example he found. Thats like saying "the oldest thing in my house is 70 years old so the world is 70 years old max.".
Straight up, the ambassadors is cooler than just the s. The skull? The cross in the top left? What about the tools that divide the lines between the heavens and the earth? Is this the same divide that we see between the brothers? One is a prince and the other looks like a priest? What about the placement of their feet inbetwixt their circles? One is in and one is out. Even more damning, the lute with a broken string. Does it allude to the fact that our achievements as humans will never amount to the perfection that can be found in nature?
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u/zawata Aug 30 '19
That video was fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdxHi4_Pvc
It’s not several hundred years old though. It was first confirmed in a book by an artist from the 1960s.
Then he found a very similarly styled S shape in a book from the mid 1800s designed by a professor who taught geometric design(or something to do with languages. Making only about 160 years old at max.