Michelangelo a secret lesson on human anatomy

Brazilian doctors uncover 'Michelangelo code'

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.

Completed nearly 500 years ago, the brightly colored frescoes painted on the Vatican's famous sanctuary are considered some of the world's greatest works of art. They depict Biblical scenes such as the "Creation of Adam" in which God reaches out to touch Adam's finger.

But Gilson Barreto and Marcelo de Oliveira believe Michelangelo also scattered his detailed knowledge of internal anatomy across 34 of the ceiling's 38 panels. The way they see it, a tree trunk is not just a tree trunk, but also a bronchial tube. And a green bag in one scene is really a human heart.

The key to finding the numerous organs, bones and other human insides is to first crack a "code" they believe was left behind by the Florentine artist. Essentially, it is a set of sometimes subtle, sometimes overt clues, like the way a figure is pointing.

"Why wasn't this ever seen before? First, because very few people have the sufficient anatomical knowledge to see these pieces like this. I do because that's my profession," said Barreto, who is a surgeon in the Brazilian city of Campinas.




Gilson Barreto descobriu um código oculto nos afrescos do teto da Capela Sistina. Como cirurgião com profundos conhecimentos de anatomia e amante das artes, o autor apresenta nesse livro sua descoberta. A minuciosa pesquisa que Gilson desenvolveu com a ajuda de Marcelo G. de Oliveira traz informações inéditas, quase 500 anos depois, sobre os conhecimentos de anatomia humana de Michelangelo e revela as peças anatômicas que permaneciam escondidas em suas pinturas e esculturas até hoje. Instigante e revelador.

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[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.

[Hiberniensis]

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

[gongtatoot]

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

[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 :'(

[Hiberniensis]

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

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Antfeedsonvids]

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