Michelangelo Code’ seen in frescoes

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SAO PAULO, Brazil - 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.

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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.

They say the key to finding the numerous organs, bones and other human insides is to crack a “code” they believe was left behind by the Florentine artist. Essentially, it is a set of sometimes subtle, sometimes overt clues, such as 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.

Past discoveries
Barreto and his friend Oliveira are not the first physicians to see depictions of human organs in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican church where popes are elected.

Fifteen years ago, U.S. doctor Frank Meshberger pointed out that the figure of God and his surrounding angels in the “Creation of Adam” panel resembled a cross-section of the human brain.

He believes Michelangelo was equating God’s gift of a soul for Adam with the divine gift of intelligence for mankind.
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Now if the Republicans would use their brains we wouldn't be in this mess we are in!!!

[jeff30997]

1. When I'm really drunk...

I can see pictures of bronchial tubes in a bowl of beans.That's bullshit!

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Famous last words

Let them make the case if they can. Stranger things have been "encoded" into any number of media -- and decoded (e.g., the Mayan ideography).

--p!

[Gregorian]

2. I've been on my back for ten years. Can't get up. Send pizza now!

Those are anchovies and pepperoni. Close, but no stomboli.

[jeff30997]

4. LOL!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Pope enters Sistine Chapel,looks up, says to Michelangelo:

"Mike, when I asked you to paint that ceiling, what I had in mind was Blue."

[sellitman]

6. Yes and Moses's face was in my toasted Bagel this morning...

Too bad I smeared his puss with Phili.

:shrug:

[bridgit]

7. all very reasonable...

artists of that time & many before & since have used allegory and/or symbolism to circumvent church & patrons; many more of being one & the same while nearly all of which had their own agenda they wanted put forward...