Comments on: Did Michelangelo Hide a Brain Drawing in a Sistine Chapel Fresco?

By: ss

ss — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:43:53 +0000

Figure C clearly shows that copulation is going on in God’s neck.

By: John Edwards

John Edwards — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:32:51 +0000

The real point is that after 500 years we still care enough to scrutinize and debate this work. It’s not like there’s a huge popular audience for subtle nuances in Signorelli.

By: Gregg Swanson

Gregg Swanson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:06:38 +0000

I guess we can find what ever we look for

By: Paul Lamb

Paul Lamb — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:08:55 +0000

Weren’t his figures painted mostly naked and then covered by later painters? Perhaps there are other hidden pictures in this ceiling that truly are hidden now.

The famous portion showing god touching the finger of Adam has been interpreted as showing a brain (the whole god portion). I’m gonna give a bit of credence to this theory.

By: cg

cg — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:49:25 +0000

Michelangelo had every reason to associate the creative power of God’s mind with the expression of it through his throat in the spoken Word.

Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ”

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us….

James 1:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,[c] these things ought not to be so.

By: john edwards

john edwards — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:40:39 +0000

This is not a brain-stem. It’s a goiter. Michelangelo suffered from a goiter while working on the Sistine ceiling as he famously reported in his poem: “A goiter I got from all this travail/ like those cats from Lombardy, from drinking bad water, or where ever.” This is a self-portrait of Michelangelo. Note how the figure kneels on the marble frame of the ceiling. Note also the flattened profile, the short beard, and short hair. A goiter makes sense. A brain-stem “hidden” in a throat does not.