Paintings of Noah's Ark: A thread 🧵

Michelangelo's "The Deluge" (1508-11) from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which leaves out the animals to focus on those soon to die "Noah’s Ark On The Mount Ararat" (1570) the only known work of Simon de Myle. Other than this painting we know nothing else about him. The Ark dominates the space, but lots of animals including a unicorn. Only Noah's family depicted, greatly outnumbered.

Just re-watching this. Had forgotten the credits are sung at the start, which I'm finding pretty hilarious.

https://twitter.com/faunagrotesque/status/1492696794882531328

Also forgot that Rossana Di Rocco, who plays an angel in IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO is also in this, first appearing in an angel costume.
#HawksAndSparrows #UccellacciEUccellini

Trying to find about a bit more about Moving Picture World staff writer "Rev W H Jackson" who was a regular contributor to MPW in the 1910s. He didn't just review religious films. Here he argues live narrators for movies are vital.
archive.org/details/movinw… I suspect a lot of what we knew about Jackson was lost because shortly after him came a more famous Rev WH Jackson, a priest whose blindness did not prevent them from travelling to Myanmar & setting up the Kemmendine Blind School in Rangoon - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H…

Just come across this film which I don't recall hearing about before SUPERFANTOZZI (Neri Parenti, 1986) which sounds similar to "History of the World pt1" & "Year One" & features both an Eden scene & Jesus
The narrator of this opening scene sounds like the same guy as did the opening narration to Lina Wertmüller's PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (1975), or at least someone emulating their voice. IMDb doesn't list a narrator for Wertmüller's film tho sadly.

The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino) [2021] Encanto (Jared Bush and Byron Howard) [2021]