Wow I didn't know people think Michelangelo hid all this anatomy stuff in the Sistine Chapel. I wonder why he hid this kind of thing in his picture. Michelangelo wasn't an amateur anatomist like Leonardo DaVinci was. From what I read Michelangelo was mostly a painter and didn't seem interested in science as much as other people were at that time. Perhaps this is just the case of seeing what you want to see like the Face on Mars. This guy agrees:
"The problem, and art historians too are certainly often guilty of this, is simply that we often see what we want to see," said Dennis Geronimus, a specialist on Renaissance art at New York University who had a chance to examine some of Barreto and Oliveira's "de-coded" matches.
Whatever the case it is a very interesting book and I would love to check it out when they print up the English version.
No comments:
Post a Comment