A secret message hidden by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel frescoes. It's what Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo, two experts in neuroanatomy at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said they found observing the Roman paintings.
Already in 1990 an American doctor, Frank Mesheberger, had reported in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a sensational discovery: the fresco representing "The Creation of Adam" around the image of God, Michelangelo would have faithfully reproduced the anatomy of a human brain, seen in cross section.
According to the doctor, the artist's intention was to show how God had not only instilled in Adam's life, but above all intelligence.
In the study published in the journal Neurosurgery specialist, Suk and Tamargo beyond. It identified another fresco, that of "Separation of Light from Darkness" place just above the altar, the detailed representation of the human spine and the medulla oblongata, which connects to the brain.
The image would be hidden in the bosom of God, and precisely in a fold of his tunic, which would lead to the optic nerve, and her neck, lit frontally opposed to the rest of the characters. One area that has always raised concerns among critics for its many imperfections, unusual for an expert on light and anatomy as Michelangelo, who at the age of 17 years already dissected corpses unearthed from cemeteries to study them.
Superimposing the image of the throat section of a brain seen from below, the two combacerebbero perfectly, show the experts. The question now is whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is a kind of Rorshach test in which everyone can see what he wants or whether, instead, a "manifesto" of the mind of its author.
Suk and Tamargo not make assumptions, but an article in Scientific American magazine's website recalls the context in which the frescoes were made, between 1508 and 1512. A period in which the contrast between the Church and science had reached its peak and that would soon be led to the astronomical revolution and in the assertion of the heliocentric theory of Copernicus.
The relationship between Michelangelo and the Catholic Church had entered deep crisis. The artist not only blamed the opulence and corruption prevailing in the Vatican, but came to be condemned by Pope Paul IV to have approached the subject of Spiritualism. A philosophy that supports the possibility of direct communication between God and the faithful and thus deprives the Church from its role as a "by need".
Paul IV went so far as to punish Michelangelo for defaming the Church through the fresco representing "Day of Reckoning," in which the artist seems to suggest that Jesus and his followers can speak directly with God
In this light, the hidden message on the Sistine Chapel ceiling might suggest that through intelligence, observation and human organs that make them possible, the man should be able to find a road that leads directly to God
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