Chapter 57: Venus and Marat

There are a lot of people in the exhibition hall, especially in front of the famous works of art, such as "Venus of Milos", "Mona Lisa", "David", etc. Unfortunately, the Louvre Museum sent them here for exhibition. Most of them are replicas, and they are very perfunctory. There are no replicas of granite, but only plaster replicas.

Qin Ling was very disappointed, but even if it is a plaster replica, people can still appreciate the charm of the original work from the sculpture, especially in front of "Venus of Milos", many audiences are admiring the beauty of Venus.

Hearing these praises, Shen Long remembered the jokes he had seen in later generations, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Qin Ling turned his head, "What are you laughing at? Isn't this statue bad?"

"No, the whole statue has a unified and unique beauty no matter from any angle. It's just a kind of classic ideal beauty, full of poetry. It's just that when I think of Venus' identity background, I look at this statue again. Even the statue feels awkward, and I can't look directly at this beauty." Shen Long said.

"Oh? What's special about Venus' identity and background? Wasn't she born in the foam of sea water?" Qin Ling asked suspiciously, this kind of birth is also full of poetry.

"That's right, but have you ever wondered why she was born in a bubble?" Shen Long held back a smile and began to popularize ancient Greek myths to Qinling. The ancient Greek myths and legends are too pornographic. They are all abbreviated versions, and many key points have not been mentioned.

"This starts with the source of ancient Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the earliest god in the universe is Chaos. Chaos created Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Gaia gave birth to Urano, the father of heaven. Si..." Following Shen Long's narration, more and more people around listened, and he was a little embarrassed to talk about the dirty content behind.

"Uranus is not only Gaia's son, but also her husband..." The crowd exclaimed for a while, the news was a bit too exciting, "Uranus kept venting his desire on Gaia, Gaia was pregnant, but Uranus was greedy for power and refused to let Gaia give birth to a child, causing a bunch of Gaia's children to be blocked in his stomach."

The faces of many spectators around turned green, what the hell is this? Even pregnant women are not spared? How do they know that more exciting things are yet to come,

"Gaia and the children couldn't bear Uranus, so she let the child in her stomach, Cronus, grab Uranus from the inside while Uranus violated her, and cut it with a knife. Come down." Hearing these words, all the male listeners felt chills in their crotches, did the son castrate the father? Isn't this too cruel? And where did this knife come from?

"Uranus, who lost his words, jumped up from Gaia because of the severe pain, so the heaven and the earth were separated, and the world was born. In Greek mythology, the world was created in this way." The audience looked at each other, compared with this, They seem to be more willing to accept the statement that Pan Gu opened the world.

"What are you talking about? What does this have to do with Venus?" Qin Ling couldn't listen anymore.

"Don't worry, we'll talk about Venus soon." Shen Long continued, "After Uranus and Gaia separated, those children could finally come out. Cronus was the first to come out with a He thought the words of Uranus were not elegant, so he threw them into the sea. Unexpectedly, after the words fell into the sea, a lot of bubbles suddenly appeared, and a beautiful woman was born from the sea. Aphrodite, the Venus we see now."

To put it simply, Venus, the most beautiful woman in the world, was actually turned into Tintin. As soon as the voice fell, the audience surrounded by the statue of Venus stepped back in an instant, and a few of them were watching. The woman in the statue quickly turned her head, so am I looking at a big dick?

"You ruined all my beautiful imaginations about Venus!" Qin Ling was speechless to him, and quickly pulled him aside,

If he stayed here again, he would have to be beaten to death by the audience. It wasn't just Qin Ling who offended him just now, the audience looked at him wrongly.

After walking a few steps, they saw Zheng Tong and Jiang Biyun standing in front of the painting "The Death of Mara". Zheng Tong was arguing fiercely with a teacher about who is the hero between Mara and Corday.

The teacher thinks that Mara is the real hero, but Zheng Tong thinks that Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Mara, is the one. He uses his abundant knowledge to refute the teacher as useless.

Shen Long actually disagreed with both of their views. The teacher only knew how to follow the script and always praised Mara according to the explanation in the textbook, while Zheng Tong’s support for Corday’s views was a bit bookish, and he was completely from the perspective of intellectuals. , while ignoring those underlying people who support Marat.

Shen Long actually doesn't like Mara either, the reason is a bit different from Zheng Tong's. Apart from being a doctor and a revolutionary, Mara is also a civil scientist. Lavoisier's refutation was useless; after Marat took power, he sent Lavoisier to court. After Marat's death, Lavoisier was executed. This matter can be compared with the Roman soldiers who killed Archimedes , are a huge loss to human science.

"Is this painting the original?" Qin Ling was not interested in their argument, and started to study the painting seriously.

"It's not the original work. The original work of "The Death of Marat" is in the Belgian Museum of Art, and the one in the Louvre is just a replica." Shen Long replied, Zheng Tong's argument was over now, and Shen Long waved to them. The four of them left the exhibition hall together.

Although the four of them were in the capital together, they rarely met each other. Since they met this time, they found a place to sit down and chat. Shen Long learned that Zheng Tong was doing research at the History Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Jiang Biyun was in a middle school. Be a language teacher.

Hearing that Shen Long had obtained a Ph. I thought that Zhong Yuemin was called back by the army after only staying for a day.

Shen Long thought for a while, maybe it was the mission that caused Wu Mantun's sacrifice, he was a little bit guilty, Ning Wei also participated in this mission, I don't know if something will happen to him.

Before he was worried for a few days, Shen Long got the news from home that Ning Wei had come back to look for him. Shen Long was muttering in his heart, so he quickly put down what he was doing and went home to see Ning Wei.