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Michelangelo's flayed
self-portrait in
The Last Judgment |
The Vatican's Sistine Chapel housed its first mass on this day in 1438. In remembrance, let's explore Michelangelo's magnificient murals in this house of worship: "The Last Judgement" and "Creation of Adam." These Renaissance frescoes reveal more than epic Biblical scenes. Hidden within robust figures and billowing clouds, you'll find the artist's boneless self-portrait dangling from Bartholomew's hand, while silhouettes of a human brain and heart emerge -- perhaps pieces of the Michelangelo Code. But a few body parts remain hidden for all time, thanks to the chapel's former master of ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena. Declaring depictions of nude bodies in church obscene, he hired the artist's apprentice, Daniele da Volterra, to conceal genitals in the artwork. Adversely, Michelangelo painted Cesena as Minos, the ugly judge in hell. So many secrets on the walls of this chapel -- is there even more than meets the eye?
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Michelangelo didn't even wish to paint the Sistine Chapel and permanentaly damaged his vision in the process.
Posted by: howardandrose@sbcglobal.net at March 19, 2007 7:28 PM
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