Sounds like someone ate a bad fungo.
Wow, at 800 years old?
“An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah” Matthew 16:4
I believe that it’s already been established that St. Peter was actually a bunny rabbit from detailed examination of the painting...
Mark
Michelangelo is said to have portrayed himself as a flayed skin
“Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The face of the skin is Michelangelo’s.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/last-judgement-jpg
another, larger pic, although (and my not having seen the original) both seem to be from before conservation work to the fresco:
http://www.wisegorilla.com/images/Impressionism/436px-Last_judgement.jpg
Engineers to search for Leonardo fresco [Battle of Anghiari]
Yahoo! | Monday October 22, 2007 | Frances D’Emilio
Posted on 10/29/2007 2:45:44 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1917780/posts
I see the “face” he’s talking about. It’s called “matrixing”. The human tendency to see faces in patterns. I’ve also heard it referred to as the ‘three-dot theory’. We see a human image when we do something like this: :-)
Looks like he’s holding the skin of a dead man, not a robe.
But I can see why you might think it’s a robe, cuz he’s almost totally nekkid.
whoops- looking at the wrong link in post 3. doh!
Yes, I see it too. Looks like a haunted tree from the Wizard of Oz.
Hey, since we’re discussing art, here are my two favorite paintings of Jesus. They’re at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota.
