{"id":1747,"date":"2003-09-18T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/18\/ogni-homo-me-guarda-come-fosse-una-testa-de-cazi\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:12:59","slug":"ogni-homo-me-guarda-come-fosse-una-testa-de-cazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/18\/ogni-homo-me-guarda-come-fosse-una-testa-de-cazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13328,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com\\\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\\\/nm\\\/plate_dc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050422075916\\\/http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com:80\\\/news?tmpl=story&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 09:15:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 03:18:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 03:18:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t normally re-post entire articles, but this one was too good to pass up, and it only seemed to be on <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/plate_dc\" title=\"Yahoo! News: Bawdy Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford\">Yahoo! News<\/a>, which deletes its pages after a week or two. Enjoy.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Bawdy Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford<\/h4>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/maiolicaplate.jpg\" title=\"The maiolica plate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The maiolica plate\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/maiolicaplate-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; A leading British museum has paid \\$387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses.<\/p>\n<p>  The Italian plate is thought to have been made by ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p>  It shows a head made up of around 50 fleshy penises, wrapped round each other to form a dense, knotted whole.<\/p>\n<p>  The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: &#8220;Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi&#8221; (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead).<\/p>\n<p>  The phrase is still a common term of abuse in Italy and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>  Oxford&#8217;s Ashmolean Museum, which has bought the plate, describes it as &#8220;one of the most extraordinary and fascinating pieces of Italian maiolica (a style of ceramic painting) in existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  It is a rare example of bawdy Renaissance art which survived the suppression of later, more prudish, generations, it said.<\/p>\n<p>  The Ashmolean said the inspiration for the plate remains obscure but it was painted &#8220;presumably with an individual in mind.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/\" title=\"The Hanscom Family Weblog\">Dad<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}