The famous ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in Rome.
To most, it is a beautiful vision from the Old Testament, frescoes painted on wet plaster of the stories of the creation of the universe, Noah's ark and Adam and Eve
They say that Michelangelo
intended some images as insults to the Pope
there's a reason that all the figures on the ceiling are Jews, the ancestors of Christ and Christianity
By emphasizing only Old Testament figures
what he was trying to say was, why we have ignored our true roots?
authors say that Michelangelo was pointedly nudging the church to be kinder to Jews
"In the late 1970's, a surgeon went into the Sistine Chapel, took a look at this [fresco]. He said to himself, wait, this is Anatomy 101 & this is actually a cross-section of the brain, the right hand side of the brain," Blech said.
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