stackyFACTSHistorical art historians will claim it's divine light, but it definitely looks like aliens.
Historical art historians will claim it's divine light, but it definitely looks like aliens. Several 15th-century paintings, most notably 'The Madonna with Saint Giovannino,' prominently feature highly detailed, disc-shaped objects hovering in the sky while a guy in the background actively points up at it. While scholars heavily argue they are just weirdly shaped angels or glowing clouds, they inadvertently invented the modern UFO aesthetic.
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