Michelangelo - Genesis, Noah & The Last Judgement

[MGkings]

Hello I agree

[arenadri7]

Tribute - 31.October 1514 Immortal MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI paints his "THE LAST JUDGEMENT" in Sixteenth Chapel

[mysticdark1]

lol @1:35, that was the cardinal who didnt like nudes in the painting, and so Michelangelo portrayed him as King Midas with the donkey ears and getting his crotch bit by a snake. The guy was a genius

[sea2007w1]

Italy is an amazing nation too, but fighting so long wars, now still can not maintain most of the colony, maybe also due to internal fight at home? If now, the snake temp people again said if eat that fruit will over GOD, I think 99% people will accept it too. :) haha. Still. always. :) or give you money or power to want to do that. :)

[KakashiSenseiRox]

THAT IS SO FUCKING SCARY IN THE END!

[ammusi]

the "apple story" is about Knowledge - and in the fresco it is both Adam & Eve that go for the apple - they both choose knowledge

[shantiliu]

@ammusi  I am totally agree with u! Congrats for your clear logic!

[ammusi]

hey thanks. I'm an art history major...

I love this stuff!

[shantiliu]

Nice to meet u. One question: why so few people understand this simple truth?

[ammusi]

Nice to meet you too : )

I think some people read books or paintings and take them literally. Others learn to read metaphorically. Michelangelo's works can be read both ways. Some high Renaiss. works were intended to serve both educated and illiterate people of the time. What sets Michelangelo (and others) apart is that the image is both religious and universal in theme.

[ammusi]

Interesting note: look at the position of Adam & Eve before they took the apple - now turn them back around to what they were doing before she turned and he reached up. He's standing and she's kneeling in front of him.

Yes, it's what you think it is : )

[shantiliu]

??? No, I don't think what YOU THINK I THOUGHT!

[ammusi]

: ) hmmm - I think you thought it : )

anyway, what is interesting isn't so much what we think they were doing - it's that Michelangelo suspects it wasn't the "original sin". In other words - you agree with him that it is about knowledge, not about fooling around. OR - you could see what they were doing - fooling around - as the original sin. It can be read both ways and appeases both audiences.

[cagonesss]

@shantiliu because were not gay like you two lovers.michelangelo was gay and his statues look feminine and gay

[ShadowStrikingNinjas]

@cagonesss

actually michelangelo is trying to say that the first sin of mankind was homosexuality.

[xProProductionsX]

@cagonesss

Yeah I agree with ShadowStrikingNinjas: it seems like homosexuality is getting very big and SENSITIVE subject in our society but which in the Bible is among the things that happened to make God ANGRY.

[gabrielle108]

the first pic below Adam is lillith not eve

in those old days they paint the so called

prostitutes with red hair but were they ??

thsi was a moment that god bring adam to life what does lillith below Adam

Shanti i love all your pictures you use

beautiful soft music as well

can be magdelana as well and she was not a prostitute she was his wife

[shantiliu]

Gabrielle, Lilith is that wonderful blond serpent female from right of painting - she is well known in iconography. The demon Lilith, the evil woman, is described as a beautiful woman, who transforms into a blue, butterfly-like demon, and it is associated with the power of seduction. I am agree with you about Magdalena. All stories about her are huge lies. There is a perfidious scope :(

[shantiliu]

... also I have a different point of view about the "apple story"; for me means Knowledge.