Caravaggio, Burial of St Lucy 1608, Bellamo Museum, Syracuse
Silvano Vinceti announced in Italy that he found the bones belonging to Michelangelo Merisi AKA Carvaggio . Vinceti claims that there is a high concentration of lead, most certainly from the paints, and the lead poisoning must have contributed to Caravaggio’s early death, not an injury from one of Caravaggio’s legendary brawls. Guardian - Remains found in Tuscany are likely to be the artist’s, proving that lead poisoning was one cause of his death 400 years ago. There is an amusing riff there about the lead in paints as a cause of depression for notable artists. For real, on the subject of “chicken or the egg”…
Meanwhile Stephen Wolfram wrote a personal tribute for Alan Turing’s birthday. Stephen Wolfram writes there that he doesn’t think that Alan Turing’s death was a suicide rather the cyanide in the apple was the result of the messy lab not a deliberate act. Wolframalpha - Happy Birthday, Alan Turing!
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