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To: grey_whiskers

Catholic, have you noticed how the sculpture has Mary much larger than the Jesus in her lap? I’m sure the Pope who commissioned that piece was please to have Mary be larger than Jesus, thus more prominant.


222 posted on 11/16/2022 9:39:49 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN
I never noticed how large either one was in the sculpture.

Looking at it, I guess it's cause Mary's clothes bulk out her form, while Jesus (newly crucified) is kinda naked or something.

But if you want to get nitpicky on artwork, note the horns on the head of Moses in Michelangelo's Moses.

It came from a mistranslation of “As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he spoke with the Lord.”

The root of the word for radiant is similar to the word for horns in Hebrew.

Source: sophomore art history class in college. Since confirmed by multiple internet searches.

It's not because anyone was trying to turn Moses into the devil.

Or you might've noticed Michelangelo's David is not circumcised.

Late medieval / renaissance sculptures weren't created so 21st Century American Evangelicals could get all carried away patting themselves on the back over noting how the sculptures violate their sensibilities.

226 posted on 11/16/2022 10:03:55 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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