14theditch - Have You Seen This?

14theditch - Have You Seen This?

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Have You Seen This?

[Mar. 30th, 2008|11:50 am]

I'm sure some of you might be aware of this already, but it's new to me. Last night I was watching a television show about the artist, Michelangelo. In discussing the Sistine Chapel, they mentioned that a certain Dr. Meshberger believes that the area surrounding God, the outline that appears some kind of red cloak and the green veil that strays below the outline along with the legs of those surrounding God all together form an outline of a cross-section of the human brain with attendant stem structures. Once I heard this, the form became totally evident to me. It is known that Michelangelo performed many dissections of corpses in order to learn about the inner-structures of the human body in order to better render the outer form. With this realization, of course comes the speculation as to what this might mean both in a religious sense and a philosophical one. Here's a link to an article on this from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A681680

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ecmyers
2008-03-30 05:41 pm (UTC)

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Whoa. That's amazing. This seems pretty convincing to me (and obvious now that I know to look for it!). I love that we can still find new understandings of art after centuries of study and criticism. It makes you wonder how much we've missed or misunderstood elsewhere.

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14theditch
2008-03-30 09:44 pm (UTC)

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ecmyers: Now I can't see it any other way. From what I understand, the art works of this time period and older are frought with all kinds of subtle and not so subtle symbolism. There were whole languages of symbols at play in them. On top of that, think of the craft involved insomething like the Sistine Chapel.

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ennisdrake
2008-03-30 06:49 pm (UTC)

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I saw this too not so long ago. Amazing, isn't it? I wonder, does that make Michelangelo a surrealist? lol!

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14theditch
2008-03-30 09:45 pm (UTC)

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ennisdrake: I guess in a way he was. What I'm wondering is if what he is saying is that god is no more nor less than a product of the imagination, a coming to the light of consciousness. There are all kinds of implications in this.

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ennisdrake
2008-04-01 04:52 pm (UTC)

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All kinds . . .

I wonder (and I'm sure it is) if his other work is being looked at more closely now, and what, if anything might be revealed?

Wasn't there another painting (by DaVinci?) found recently in which a piece of composition -- like a soundtrack -- was hidden in the work?

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