Scuse me while I reblog. Daily Galaxy‘s post on Giordano Bruno caught my attention because I’ve seen his likeness around Rome several times. The statue in this image is rather dour. This picture is interesting because of the contrast between the ever-serious gaze of Bruno (which pierces you when standing beneath the statue) and the ridiculous models in the ad behind him. I find it interesting how women in these fashion shoots are always in such uncomfortable bodily positions; it makes me wonder (beyond the implicit meaning that women should be tortured to look good) how anyone finds these images attractive. It is a contrast of worlds in which public space evolves and is contested by different media. Here it is a case of a celebrated heretic versus some Gucci girls, both having been tortured by the respective authorities of their time.
PS Bruno was a Hologroker. Check him out!
Smack in the center of the Rome’s fashionable Campo de Fiori is a statue of Giordano Bruno, philosopher. Bruno held that God was present in nature and that the universe and life was infinite. The Catholic Church burned him at the stake, right where his statue is today.
“The general opinion is not always the perfect truth…” Giordano Bruno is still quoted. Such remarks produced expensive, bitter consequences: On 17th of February 1600 he publicly was burnt at the stake after eight years of torture and dungeon detention. Today the Piazza Campo dei Fiori where this statue stands has become a monument to free thinking; adjacent to the statue, is the “Fahrenheit 451″
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