another pic, different angle
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big boy
michaelangelo could put all that work into perspective tricks and he still couldn’t sculpt a titty
Look, he was a genius, but he was also Gay
All time favorite cat picture, I’d like to thank the cat and everybody else involved.
do you ever think about how little Michelangelo cared
All right, everyone, grab a chair and sit back because I’m going to share with you what I learned about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in my Art History Class.
The man NEVER wanted to paint the damn thing. But the pope at the time “forced him to” According to my teacher. Michelangelo hated this man, I MEAN REALLY HATED HIM. So did a majority of people. The pope’s nickname translated literally means “Terrible pope”.
And the working conditions were awful. He had to work on his back with all that paint, which is filled with some toxic shit that gave Michelangelo a limp for the rest of his life. (Also, our teacher made us get on our backs and try drawing with both hands JUST to prove how bad and uncomfortable it is.)
At the time, the ceiling was so high, you could barely see it. You need binoculars to get a good look at what’s up there, by the time people could see the paintings, there was a lot of weird symbolism that Michelangelo hid up there.
This one? The creation of the sun and moon? God is mooning you. And the pope and all others after him prayed under that without knowing.
This one? At the time, dissecting was sacrilegious and everyone found out how behind God was what looked like half a brain. blah blah, science, science, that pissed everyone off.
And also, ALLLLLLL the men and women in the Sistine Chapel are all on fucking steroids. My teacher described the women’s bodies as "Men bodies with boobs slapped on."
And then there is this:
Now this is the back wall. Michelangelo actually wanted to paint this one after he finished the ceiling. (and there was a different pope too, I believe.) However, originally, EVERYONE in that painting was naked. And they didn’t like it. Adam and Eve naked? That’s cool. But Jesus? Now you crossed the line. So the pope at the time hired someone else to censor it and give the important figures clothes. He worked on it for 6 or 9 months before he died.
And then the symbolism in this one is great. Somewhere in the right, there are homosexuals in heaven. (No matter what, the Vatican will say “Those straight men are happy” I’ll get to that in a second), Michelangelo painted himself near Jesus, and the terrible pope is in hell with a snake biting his balls.
And if you were to point ANY of this out to the Vatican, they will deny all of it and claim Michelangelo was a catholic hero. In fact, when they discovered the symbolism around the 60s or 70s, the guy who told the Vatican was kicked out of the Vatican for life.
TL;DR: Michelangelo hated the pope and made the best “fuck you” of all time.
Dude Michelangelo was a BAMF who gave zero fucks
This is fantastic!! :D
He was also a Religious Reformer(like most Secrets of the Dead eps that one's a bit sensational, but it covers the major points. Don't know if that link'll work for non-USians though, sorry (:/).
Also, when I say "reformer", I just mean he didn't agree with the Church hierarchy and it's dogma, not that he was a Lutheran or anything. In ref to the history of the period, "protestant" and "reformer" are rather general terms covering a wide variety of different religious non-conformists, including(though this didn't apply to Mich) atheists, since Christian writers of all types consistently refused to acknowledge coherent non-belief even existed for centuries(and plenty of Christians, of course, continue this delusion in modern times, as ridiculous as that is), and often lumped them in with genuinely Christian "heretics" and "apostates".
This may have been one big reason why he felt like he needed to take Vatican jobs; many of his co-religionists and correspondents had already been "suppressed", and the Spirituali weren't really all that clandestine in the first place(they even ran a candidate for Pope. Once (:( ), meaning the hierarchy of the day knew of his views. They may have used the threat of similar treatment(I'm talking about public humiliation, torture, imprisonment, dispossession, and public execution here) to induce him to take jobs he'd have preferred to reject. He certainly managed to find clever ways to stick it to those bastards after the fact though, didn't he :)
