The Michelangelo code: The genius of the Sistine Chapel was rude, puerile and a tad pornographic

Times Online UK ^ | March 5, 2006 | Waldemar Januszczak

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for a fascinating post. I, too, wasn't going to read it after the lede. But it was a real education in the genius of Michaelangelo. Thanks.

Congressman Billybob

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[damper99]

I vote ror his ignorance. The name should be "Boaz".

[SW6906]

Wow, if you can get past the first few paragraphs, it's actually a good, interesting read.

Not sure if this is either GGG or Industrial Strength Humor ping-worthy.........

[Dog Gone]

Wow, if you can get past the first few paragraphs, it's actually a good, interesting read.

That was the hard part. A lot of folks will want to hurl at the start and won't get to anything substantive.

[IronJack]

I wouldn't let this guy touch my son's Paint-by-Numbers version of dogs playing poker.

[martin_fierro]

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[VOA]

...the Polish pope fetched up in Japan, where he met the wife of the
owner of a local cable-television station who happened to be a Catholic.
Japan has a tiny but fierce Catholic population left over from the
days of St Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies.

(Fellow Freepers, hold your fire. This is NOT a criticism of
the dropping of the atomic bombs to end WWII)
For the younguns in the crowd, the lady is probably part of the Catholic
population that was substantially reduced when the second A-bomb was dropped on
Nagasaki.
The bomb was aimed at an easily identified landmark of Nagasaki...it's cathedral.
In a flash of light, the Christian cause in Japan was dealt a
more severe blow than centuries of oppression by Japanese rulers.

I'm only mentioning this because it blows away a lot of the zenophobia
arguments about the dropping of the bombs.
The USA passed up targets that had Japanese cultural importance, but
took out a city with a large part of the Christian population.
So much for the zenophobia. We were dropping the bomb to end the war...
not to just do a racist killing of a foreign population.

[MineralMan]

"I vote ror his ignorance. The name should be "Boaz"."

Not in my KJV. It's Booz.

[Willie Green]

Good grief...

You've been around here long enough to know that this article requires a ***BARF ALERT!!!***

Straighten out your act or I'll report you to the Mods for abusing your posting privileges.

;^)

[zeeba neighba]

Michaelangelo had a big crew of painters working for him. The master generally drew the figures and along would come the help or understudys to fill them in. It's conceivable that these helpers added the figures like the figure doing the dump. The same sort of thing is sometimes seen in architecture and is sort of a signature for the workman. I believe they have even found them on the Great Pyramid.

[Eaker]

bo'-oz (TR, Booz; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Boes): the King James Version, Greek form of Boaz (thus, the Revised Version (British and American)) (Matthew 1:5; Luke 3:32).

Argue about something important.

[MineralMan]

"Argue about something important."

Why? This is fun. Some poster calls the author of the article ignorant for naming a Biblical character correctly. I point out that Booz is the correct name, according to the King James Version, the most widely-used version of the Bible.

So, who's ignorant? Apparently it can be spelled both ways, and is Boaz in other translations. Yet...in the most popular translation, it's Booz. It's pronounced the same in both spellings.

Who care's if it's important? It's at least as important as the subject of the thread. Who cares what some British writer thinks about the Sistine Chapel ceiling? That's important?

[A.A. Cunningham]

The bomb was aimed at an easily identified landmark of Nagasaki...it's cathedral.

Anyone who knows the details of the Nagasaki mission, original target was Kokura, knows that that claim is bulls***.

[Eaker]

You got me.

I am at work and am in a pissy mood because of it.

Lack of booze.

Carry on!

[Willie Green]

A lot of folks will want to hurl at the start and won't get to anything substantive.

Yeah, well most men only have one penis that they need to be concerned about.
Take care of it, and don't abuse it, and it'll last you a life time.
Obviously, there is something defective in the one that Waldemar was issued.

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[zeeba neighba]

Definition
Boaz = "fleetness"
ancestor of David, kinsman-redeemer to Ruth, daughter-in-law of Naomi
name of the left of two brazen pillars, 18 cubits high, erected in the porch of Solomon's temple

[gondramB]

"Basically, the Japanese were charmed out of their money by the last pope, the one before Uncle Fester."

Hard to take this article seriously when they start out calling the Pope names.

[gondramB]

"So.....Michelangelo was a fag. I did not know that."

Yeah, that part is actually true..I don't know about the rest of it though. it is not a coincidence that his greatest works are the male form.