Community | December 20, 2009 | 5 comments

Brain on the Sistine Chapel?

source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/16/brain-on-the-sistine.html

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5 comments // Brain on the Sistine Chapel?

  • versasrev
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      versasrev  

    • The Mandorla is the term for full body halo 02, which in this case is the most likely answer.

      Some people interpret this as a divine womb, and I find the womb interpretation to be more valid than the brain idea. This is partly do to there being no evidence of Michelangelo dissecting human bodies like Leonardo; thus he wouldn't have the understanding to recreate a brain like form.

    • 2 years ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • ryan8566
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      ryan8566  

    • it is well known that the vatican had michaelangelo 'cover up' human organs.
      they apparently did not recognize the brain.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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    • The surrounding cloak is a long used concept of the enclosure or cover that frames a deity. Such are seen in many works from the Roman period. A night Goddess will hold a billowing cloak - that imitates the sky. These often display the idea of the sky enclosing the deified.

    • 2 years ago
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