Michelangelo's Hidden Knowledge: Drawing of the brain found in his most famous piece - Polidicks

[quote=Tonic]Hidden within the Sistine Chapel ceiling mural is evidence that Michelangelo used his big brain to show what he knew of human nervous system anatomy. Born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in 1475, he is known and revered to this day by his first name alone, as is often the case with those stars that shine the brightest. Sharing with his contemporary Leonardo Da Vinci — the textbook example of the Renaissance man — Michelangelo's vast and varied body of work in painting, poetry, sculpture and architecture continues to inform and inspire nearly five centuries after his time. Through a remarkable blog post by R. Douglas Fields, featured on Scientific American's website, we learn that the artist continues to surprise us. Fields writes that while Michelangelo was cautious to not draw attention to his self-directed study and knowledge of human anatomy, during his late teens he exhumed bodies from his local church graveyard, conducted autopsies and documented his discoveries. According to recent exploration of one of his most significant works done by neuroscientists, there is speculation that Michelangelo used the occasion of creating his Sistine Chapel masterpiece to subtly showcase his anatomical knowledge. Back in 1990, according to Fields' article, physician Frank Meshberger wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the iconic panel portraying the creation of Adam offers a shockingly realistic anatomical depiction of the human brain in cross-sectional view. Today, a team of brain scientists is discovering that even more deliberate, surreptitious anatomical wisdom is contained in the Sistine's ceiling. As published in the journal Neurosurgery, Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University School of medicine looked to the final ceiling panel and found yet more representation of the human brain. As Fields writes, for someone such as Michelangelo whose technique as a painter of human form, shadows and light was virtually unparalleled, there has long been a sense for something being amiss in that final panel. The unlikely drape of God's robe as well as the odd lighting and shadowing of the deity's neck and chin have been thought as uncharacteristically strange, and less true to Michelangelo's well-established standards of exacting, detailed realism. But as Suk and Tamargo posit, the neck and chin region in combination with that curving vertically-aligned bunching of fabric down the front of the robe reveal an accurate representation of the human brain, the brain stem and the spinal cord. History tells us both that Michelangelo was both a religious man as well as one whose relationship with his church became a difficult and challenging one. Today's medical scientists can shed light on the surprising observations contained in this great work of art, but they leave us only able to speculate as to the motivations and the intended meaning of Michelangelo's apparent showcasing of his medical and anatomical knowledge of the nervous system in the Sistine Chapel. As Fields artfully concludes: "We may never know the truth, but in Separation of Light from Darkness, Michelangelo’s masterpiece combines the worlds of art, religion, science, and faith in a provocative and awe inspiring work of art, which may also be a mirror."[/quote] [url=http://www.tonic.com/article/michelangelos-sneaky-cistine-chapel-sleight-of-hand/]Fonte[/url] [img_thumb]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/28/article-1282238-09CCDB7D000005DC-582_634x792.jpg[/img_thumb]

Jesus on toast

Absolutely Amazing and mind blowing.

That's pretty damn neat.

Wow that's awesome

No wonder he is known worldwide.

I see no resemblance between the picture of the brain and the painting.

Michelangelo kicking ass since 1475.

I'm gonna agree with sp00ks on this one. Why is the "brain" in the dude's throat?

I saw this on a TV programme over a year ago, and people were saying about how they think he secretly went to these illegal autopsies

This thread made me search up pictures of brains. Wasn't there also that thing which showed that the image of god resembled the brain, too?

[QUOTE=BurnEmDown;22263023]I'm gonna agree with sp00ks on this one. Why is the "brain" in the dude's throat?[/QUOTE] If you look at the angle in which the brain is drawn, you'll notice that it's the same way you're looking at the man. He painted the bottom view of the brain from the bottom of the man's head.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22263048]If you look at the angle in which the brain is drawn, you'll notice that it's the same way you're looking at the man. He painted the bottom view of the brain from the bottom of the man's head.[/QUOTE] Maybe, but it still seems like the brain is in his throat, not the upper part of his head.

Also, [img]http://www.jillstanek.com/adam%20God.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;22263144]Also, [img]http://www.jillstanek.com/adam%20God.png[/img][/QUOTE] Yeah, that is one of the better known ones. Michelangelo along with other renaissance painters often put hidden images into their paintings.

His David is amazing as well.

[QUOTE=Wakka;22263320]His David is amazing as well.[/QUOTE] I saw David this past March when I went to Florence. It was magnificent!

I'm not really seeing it, tbh.

Looks like a cock

I'm not seeing it, I think they're trying too hard.

God is a brain? Oxymoron right there.

[QUOTE=The_Fly56556;22263991]God is a brain? Oxymoron right there.[/QUOTE] More like, god in in the brain. As in he was created by our brain.

[QUOTE=sp00ks;22262988]I see no resemblance between the picture of the brain and the painting.[/QUOTE] This. Anyone can take some random painting and make you believe there is some hidden image in there.

[QUOTE=Heroms;22264195]This. Anyone can take some random painting and make you believe there is some hidden image in there.[/QUOTE] the brain is painted from the same angle as you'd have it if the man wasn't there that can't be an accident

Trippy as fuck.

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;22263144]Also, [img]http://www.jillstanek.com/adam%20God.png[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/3/7/1/17371.jpg?v=1[/img] Dammit, this guy liked brains a lot.

[QUOTE=Egevened;22264248]the brain is painted from the same angle as you'd have it if the man wasn't there that can't be an accident[/QUOTE] No it's not. The brain would have to be inside his mouth if that was true the angle is off and his throat looks completely natural - it's a coincidence that the throat looks remotely like the underside of the brain. [QUOTE=jimhowl33t;22264315][img]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/3/7/1/17371.jpg?v=1[/img] Dammit, this guy liked brains a lot.[/QUOTE] No, it might as well have been the curvature on an axehead or a jellyfish. It could be anything and there's no reason to believe it's a brain.

To me, this is up there with seeing "The Mother Mary" in your toast. It's just confirmation bias.

[QUOTE=Dr.Strangelove;22263144]Also, [img]http://www.jillstanek.com/adam%20God.png[/img][/QUOTE] that guys dick is like half an inch long

Less, and that's Adam by the way. I'm guessing Eve was satisfied and that's why she wanted the snake.