Copro/Nason Gallery 2525 Michigan Ave. T5, Santa Monica , "Nostradamus, Three waves to the Apocalypse" Date: February 4 through March 4, 2006 CoproNason Gallery presents a group art exhibition of work honoring the most widely read seer of the Renaissance, Nostradamus. Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, has intrigued the world for five centuries, considered by many to be the greatest prophet who has ever lived.While most prophets recorded vague visions of future events, Nostradamus pinpointed his predictions using specific dates, astrological configurations, climatic events and anagrams naming the villains hundreds of years before they appeared. His prophetic writings were known as Centuries which contained one hundred prophetic verses of four lines each known as quatrains mostly dealing with disasters of various sorts and predictions of an Apocalypse in the beginning of the next millennium.
It is believed he conjured his visions by staring into a mirror until it became cloudy and visions of the future appeared. In the film about Nostradamus from 1981 "Man who show tomorrow", Orson Welles reenactedwho Saw Tomorrow major historic events accurately foretold in the quatrains. Much of the film dealt with Nostradamus predictions of Three Primary Adversaries to Mankind: Napoleon, Hitler and a future Adversary, Mabus. Welles portrayed Mabus as a middle eastern terrorist and foresaw that he would be here at The new millennium a villainous warlord who will start the third world war and wear a light blue turban." He cites numerous quatrains describing how he would launch a devastating strike on Manhattan.Welles emphasized that many scholars agree "the new city" mentioned five times in "The Centuries" refers to New York City, pointing out that the northern border of New York State is 45 degrees latitude, alluding to Quatrain 6:97: "The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches the great new city .
