What the heck were those Renaissance artists smoking?

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1. From teh Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabus

In Roman mythology, King Metabus of the Volsci was the father of Camilla.

Driven from his throne, Metabus and his infant daughter Camilla were chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci. When the river Amasenus blocked his path, he bound her to a spear and promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant if she would safely transported to the opposite bank. He then safely threw her to the other side, and swam across to retrieve her. The story is told by Virgil in Book XI of the Aeneid.

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2. heheheh thanks - I knew I vaguely remembered the story,

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3. Nice try by Mssr. Peytavin, but it's obvious that he never tested his rig

The babies always fall off the spears when you tie them up like that.

Amateur.

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4. Well, judging by what he's wearing, there was apparently

quite the tailwind. Perhaps that helped keep them in place.

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7. Art is in the eye of the beholder.

I like your interpretation better than mine. Though the rag was obviously hung up on something.

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5. Painted like a man who had never seen a spear thrown in his life.

Or tied a kid to anything either.

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6. Good points - What struck me was how arousing he

thought the whole process was. (Something must be holding that fabric up in front of him.)

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8. Well, I was teasing. Schools of painting like the mannerists were known to defy natural laws.

Sometimes those drapes were added afterward because the realities of life, as it were, were thought to be "too too." That wasn't the case here but it's hard to make someone nude and not nude at the same time, so as not to frighten the horses.

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9. heheeh yeah, I took it as you meant it, I was just playing around myself :D n/t