Favo Medrano

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[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@LadyAstsay Una total tragedia, para todos los involucrados, pero en especial para esos niños que venían en el carro. Todo mal.

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@LuisCardenasMx @gallegoso No sirve para nada esta gente

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@mario_delgado Terrible decision, cero formalidad. Ya fuera por favor este gobierno!

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@EsiniSevenBiri Que increíble!

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@SimonLevyMx No

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@sciencegirl Sorry, don’t like it

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@Babygravy9 🤣🤣😂😂

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@LucasGageX Then I hope theatre plays can be more mainstream and appreciated since everything else is faked.

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@elonmusk What’s the purpose on sharing these lies?

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@moaimx @d3js_org A mi si me gusta más D3 que todas las librerías de Python que eh probado, aparte pues listo para publicar en web!

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@scrowder I would say, he should’ve been arrested, and/or fined, but not killed. This generates more frustration on both sides.

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@elonmusk Not cool

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@proceso Y son quienes tienen estos puestos!
https://t.co/ZD91jRkEZv

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@arlinmedrano_ Todos están indignados con esto, esperamos que asuman responsabilidad por sus errores u omisiones, pero ya van varias situaciones y nada!

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@szurita 😱

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@eltemagv Da vergüenza esto la verdad

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@MorenaSenadores Mafiosos

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@azucenau Que horror, los peores mafiosos son los de corbata

[Favo Medrano @favovirisnikov]

@CartonCalderon Me causa muchas dudas este Cuatlicue. La presentación fue llena de inconsistencias. Espero que arrojen más claras especificaciones.