Name of chosen work: Cruxifixction of Jesus

What media is used to create it: Paint

Artist (If known): Unknown

Date it was created created: 1350

Where it was created: Visoki Decani in Decan Kosovo

Where it resides now: Visoki Decani in Decan Kosovo
Where I found the image: http://www.lifedeathprizes.com/amazingstuff/ufos-ancient-art-2490

Why I chose this work of art: I could not pass this one up. Many
people who think that Jesus was of extraterrestrial origin like to point to this
Gothic era painting, specifically to the two hollowed out spheres with tails to
the upper right and left hand corners of the work. They depict human
beings inside, apparently flying these objects. I am neither supporting nor
refuting the idea that Jesus was an extra terrestrial. Even if the two spheres
are actually flying objects manned by extraterrestrials, this doesnt
necessarily imply that Jesus was an extraterrestrial. We will not know for
sure. Only the original painter knows what he was trying to convey with
these hollowed spheres with humans inside. Perhaps they were observing
the cruxifixction? Even if not extraterrestrials, this is probably one of the
earliest imagined depictions of manned aerial vehicles.

Name of chosen work: Virgin Mary and Jesus

What media is used to create it: Stone

Artist (If known): Unknown

Date it was created created: 14th Century

Where it was created: Notre Dame cathedral

Where it resides now: Notre Dame cathedral
Where I found the image:
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-virgin-mary-with-child-statue-at-notredame-gothic-cathedral-14th-6517049.html
Why I chose this work of art: Veneration of the Virgin Mary was
popular in the middle ages, almost developing into a cult. Perhaps many
peasant women during the middle ages saw inspiration in her. However, a
vicious iconoclast movement was triggered by the Reformation, resulting in
the destruction of these figures and saints. This is why you do not see very
many statues in pre-dominantly Protestant nations today. It was especially
bad in civil war era England, which made many people who liked the Virgin
Mary very angry, making it a rather nasty conflict (1). We saw this before,
with the Byzantine iconoclast movement. I would think the English Puritans
would atleast leave the statues involving Jesus alone. I think it is absolutely
fascinating, and pathetic, that people would act so stupidly and irrationally
about events and entities that havent been fully proven to exist.
(1) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
q=cache:ZrIxicuFDNAJ:lubbockonline.com/stories/052601/
rel_052601106.shtml+&cd=20&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#.WC-uIsfZbBQ

Name of chosen work: The chalice of Benedek Suky

Media used to create it: Gold

Artist (If known): Unknown

Date it was created: c1440

Where it was created: Translyvannia

Where it resides now: Esztergom, Cathedral Treasury
Where I found the image: http://www.katolikus.hu/hungariae/katal3eng.html

Why I chose this work of art: This object is a good symbol of the
Reformation. Up to the 1400s the Church in Rome had the vast majority of
Europes nobility under their thumb. Did Benedek Suky believe that this
donation to the Church would win him a special pass to heaven? As long
as Europes nobility believed that the Church was their ticket agent to
heaven, and that they needed to be nice to them, the Papal Church had
control over them. This arrangement was the basis of the Holy Roman
Empire, which was a loosely knit empire that tried to revive the idea of a
Latin-Germanic empire after it was overrun by barbarians in 476 CE.
However, some of the nobility within this Holy Roman empire began to
develop conflicts of interest with Papal authority, and this group of
European nobility began to discover nationalism and rationalism, which

they used to subvert and challenge Papal authority. Hungary was one of
the many nations that underwent civil strife during this period where Papal
rule challenged. (2)
What would have happened if a Protestant rebel noble found it? Depending
on his character, he would have either have looted it for himself or melted it
down for resources to pay for his army. It was not surprising that Bishop
Istvn Ilosvai moved it to safety at Nagyszombat, where I wonder if it was
used to deal with the emotional stress of popular backlash against Papal
rule (instead of a supposed communion cup, as it was probably originally
crafted for)? I wonder if a descendant of the cupss original maker was
serving in one of the Hungarian Protestant armies?
(2) https://www.scionofzion.com/hungarian_reformation.htm