The Michaelangelo Code

[Gemini Cricket]

We've heard of the 'Da Vinci Code' now there's the 'Michaelangelo Code'.

Link to article. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/arts_michelangelo_dc&printer=1;_ylt=As3M1xagRmpSBLPC9le9es0Z.3QA;_ylu=X 3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-)
Two Brazilian doctors and amateur art lovers believe they have uncovered a secret lesson on human anatomy hidden by Renaissance artist Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
I love stuff like this. :)

[sleepyjeff]

Cool/interesting :)

[innerSpaceman]

Satan. Pure Satan.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Did you guys look at the comparison photos they provide? I'm sorry, but it looks like baloney to me. The guy painted tons of things in that ceiling - I'm sure you could find whatever you wanted in all those togas if you wanted to.

[scaeagles]

My 11 year old daughter, when she was three, painted a picture for me for fathers day which still hangs framed in my office. There are clearly images of a dinosaur (brontosaurus, to be specific), a vacuum, a lazy boy recliner, and an ice cream cone.

Do I believe she meant to paint those things specifically? No. But they look like that to my eye.

You can see whatever you want to in art. I'm with CP - looks bogus to me - like a couple of guys looking for grants.

[Gemini Cricket]

Those pictures are not great, however the Creation of Adam where god is a brain does really look like it. Apparently, Michelangelo worked in a morgue and studied pathology. So it is possible. The examples suck, but what about this:
http://intranet.rutgers.edu/~skelly/CreationAdamBrain.jpeg
???

[Not Afraid]

Given what I know about Renaissance art and society, I can believe Michelangelo used his knowledge of anatomy to influence the shapes he was painting on the Sistine Chapel. It is not uncommon for artists from any era to take basic shapes from nature and interpret then as other objects in their art.

What I am skeptical of is the hidden "code". I don't really believe there is any broader or hidden meaning beyond what it is - the influence of other aspects of the artist's life appearing in his artistic work. But, as a trained Art Historian, I have been taught to be skeptical until more research cooberates the initial findings.

[Gemini Cricket]

No, I don't think there's any code leading people to something amazing. I think he just bucked the system and added human anatomy to his art. If I remember correctly, the pope at the time forbid any inner human anatomy to be present in these paintings. No graphic depictions showing body parts, I read this somewhere... Maybe this was just his way of being funny, I don't know. But I do think that's a brain.
:)

[innerSpaceman]

I think it's a cabbage, and I could - if I had the time - point out six specific interior cabbage points to prove that the amorphous shape of Mr. God and his angelic sycophants is truly cabbage, and nothing but.

[Not Afraid]

And a cabbage would also go along with the theory that the artist used shapes from nature as inspiration in his art. It could well be a cabbage.

[Gemini Cricket]

If that's what's in Steve's skull, then it's cabbage.
:D Ha!

Whatever. It's just art and no one would believe it unless frickin' Michelangelo actually wrote a huge note across the ceiling saying 'Make sure you look for the fu cking body parts...' So much for thinking that artist could be creative...
:rolleyes:

[€uroMeinke]

I'm skeptical - Have you seen Micahaelangelo's renditions of boobs? His renderings of female body parts were certainly lacking.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm skeptical - Have you seen Micahaelangelo's renditions of boobs? His renderings of female body parts were certainly lacking.See, that was before science perfected boobs.

Ok, in looking at the image GC provided, that's pretty convincing, and I'm willing to admit that. The ones that were in the article weren't great. The brain thing I can see, the others are stretches, I think.