Michelangelo a secret lesson on human anatomy

[jiwbink]

Da Vinci is said to have told Michelango that

his version of the human body "look like sacks of potatoes".

I only wish I had some of thier talent.

[KaLLeite]

:( Aparenta ser interessante, embora o som esteja estranho! Que pena :'(

[Antfeedsonvids]

Michelangelo was a gay, with a small dick! That's why all of his female depictions look masculine, and how all his sculptures were hung like door mice.

[operastud82]

That's one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read. At the time of the Renaissance and in Classical art, small penises were considered to be a sign of nobility and beauty. The images were not meant to be pornographic and it would have been considered vulgar to paint or sculpt large phalluses. As it is, another painter was commissioned years later to paint cloths over all the nude figures in the Last Judgement. Your taste in dicksize does not matter where high art is concerned.

[Antfeedsonvids]

I take it all back then. I'd hate to get into a war of wits with an opera stud.

[gongtatoot]

@operastud82 YOU TELL THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!

[EnjoyTheBuffet]

Few people realize that what Michelangelo was saying with "Creation of Adam" was that man had gone completely mad and had created God in their own minds. The arm of "God" extends from what looks just like a human brain. Michelangelo had amazing knowledge of the human anatomy for his time. So cool that Michelangelo took their money but then used his art to convey the truth for all future generations to discover on their own.

[Hiberniensis]

Come off it. It's well known that Michelangelo was a devout Catholic. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of history knows it.

[ModernMaverick]

Have you ever said one thing--or pretended to be something or someone--but done another? Back then, going against the Church in public was DANGEROUS! Read BETWEEN the lines.

[Hiberniensis]

While 'reading between the lines' is often necessary in life, by itself it makes a very poor substitute for total ignorance of the most basic facts as they are known to all and sundry. As I said, anyone with even a passing knowledge of history knows that Michelangelo was deeply and sincerely religious. Just look at his poetry or at the PRIVATE drawings he made for one of his closest friends Vittoria Colonna, who was herself profoundly religious.

[ModernMaverick]

What do you mean by a "passing knowledge of history?" Are you talking about the one in schools that are learned/read through textbooks produced by companies who also write the tests that determine whether or not we have a passing knowledge of history that inevitably get us into colleges that perpetuate he same? What one says in public is often not what one believes in private. Would you tell a Christian child there is no Santa? As an artist--or a freethinker--would you tell a woman no God?

[Hiberniensis]

By a 'passing knowledge of history' I mean knowledge of those basic facts which speak for themselves, which the average, interested but non-expert adult has from being moderately well-read on the subject, and which cannot be disputed except by means of severely strained feats of willful misinterpretation.

[ModernMaverick]

Then I agree with you! Passing knowledge is for the average, i.e., the masses, who are non-experts, who read books in a non-expertly way, who have no knowledge which could make them read in a Heruclean(ly) strained way! Thank God that Jesus does not require the same! I'm with you brother....or sister? I get you. Those basic facts that the average, vs. the expert-adult gets are just not for everybody. Let's argue no more so that we expose the masses not to our argument. I'm with YOU~

[Hiberniensis]

You have misinterpreted my points as flagrantly as you have misinterpreted Michelangelo's art. That's my last word on the matter.

[pricebenjamin]

Ma non è per niente vero...