GnosticBishop wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
From the title thought you were a female in a moral quandry about getting a boob job for yourself!
Maybe Satan is just a geeky fat boy with man tits.
And it's "Michelangelo". not "Michel Angelo".
Like most commoners in the Middle Ages he had no last name.
Just "Michelangelo".
likewise "Leonardo" was just "Leonardo". "Da Vinci" was just a nickname meaning "of Vinci" ( a town) they tacked on to distinquish him from the other Leonardos. The book should be called "The Leonardo Code".
Thanks for this.
Do you think the male female thing to be misogyny or is it slight of hand?
Regards
DL
Been flipping through both my old college art history book, and the internet to find a real good close up of Satan in the painting in question. Havent found it yet. Will have to get back to you about this mammary question.
But as a poster above said- the whole Eden story is misogynistic.
In fact its a riff on a common ancient mythical motiff. The Pagan Greeks told of a girl named Pandora who opened a box - and all of the evil of the world spills out.
The person who does that is always a chick!
FY, and my own I- the first website I stumbled upon is entitled "Michelangelo Buonarroti".
So actually he DID have a last name. But as the first line of the text says "Unlike Leonardo, he was of noble birth". So that explains why he had a last name (unlike most of the artists of the time).
Thanks for this. Let me know if you find a better photo than the one I used.
17 Nov 2014, 1:36 pm
