
A mysterious hidden face has been discovered high up in the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi.Found in part of a fresco by 13th century Renaissance artist Giotto di Bondone, what appears to be the face of the devil has been identified in clouds that make up part of the painting. It is thought that this could be the earliest known hidden portrait to beconcealed in clouds.
Chief restorer Sergio Fusetti believes the face may have been included as a joke by Giotto and was aimed at someone he"d fallen out with. A devil"s face hidden for centuries has been revealed in a fresco by the Italian renaissance master Giotto. An Italian art historian, Chiara Frugoni, spotted the devil"s profile in the fresco"s clouds,high up in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.
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The First Report : After a
dense snowfall on February 7 and 8, 1855, the people of Devonshire, England
awoke to find strange footprints throughout their small town. The London Times,
on February 16, reported the entire incident in detail."Considerable sensation
has been evoked in the towns of Topshm, Lympstone, Exmouth, Teignmouth and
Dawlish, in the south of Devon, in consequence of the discovery of a vast number
of foot-tracks of a most strange and mysterious description. The superstitious
go so far as to believe that they are the marks of Satan himself; and that great
excitement has been produced among all classes may be judged from the fact that
the subject has been descanted on from the pulpit. It appears that on Thursday
night last there was a very heavy fall of snow in the neighborhood of Exeter and
he south of Devon. On the following morning, the inhabitants of the above towns
were surprised at discovering the tracks of some strange and mysterious animal,
endowed with the power of ubiquity, as the foot-prints were to be seen in all
kinds of inaccessible places - on the tops of houses and narrow walls, in
gardens and courtyards enclosed by high walls and palings, as well as in open
fields. There was hardly a garden in Lympstone where the footprints were not
observed.
The track appeared more like that of a biped than a quadruped, and the steps
were generally eight inches in advance of each other. The impressions of the
feet closely resembled that of a donkey's shoe, and measured from an inch and a
half to (in some instances) two and a half inches across. Here and there it
appeared as if cloven, but in the generality of the steps the shoe was
continuous, and, from the snow in the center remaining entire, merely showing
the outer crest of the foot, it must have been convex.The creature seems to have
approached the doors of several houses and then to have retreated, but no one
has been able to discover the standing or resting point of this mysterious
visitor. On Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Musgrave alluded to the subject in his
sermon, and suggested the possibility of the footprints being those of a
kangaroo; but this could scarcely have been the case, as they were found on both
sides of the estuary of the Exe. At present it remains a mystery, and many
superstitious people in the above towns are actually afraid to go outside their
doors at night."
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