Friday, June 11, 2010

Now decode this.

While, again, at a futile attempt to pry at the mind of "my friend" Jessica at jessicarulestheuniverse.com, I came across this article, apparently reposted from Scientific American guest blog. Well, this one is interesting.


At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architect—was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes. Now, 500 years after he drew them, his hidden anatomical illustrations have been found—painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cleverly concealed from the eyes of Pope Julius II and countless religious worshipers, historians, and art lovers for centuries—inside the body of God.


You can check out the full article at http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=michelangelos-secret-message-in-the-2010-05-26.
I'm beginning to think of what other body parts did he possibly conceal in his drawings. ha ha. Another thing, check out the comments. They're as full of info and insights as the article itself.

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