Friday, June 04, 2010

Michelangelo FT - heretical, subversive - W.


Can't Be Unseen:
"'Michelangelo put in there as a snub to the Catholic church. They declared it illegal to operate on cadavers for scientific research, but doctors and Michelangelo himself practiced it in secret... he included the fruits of his research in this painting to elaborate on their own metaphor.'"

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