[billorites]

pingy.

[manwiththehands]

I’ve even stroked his sweet little willy. I know I shouldn’t have done. But I couldn’t stop myself. And it was probably the single most exciting moment I have had in art.

Stopped reading after this ...

[WideGlide]

[aristotleman]

This is British journalistic writing at its worst. Dry, self-important, full of colonialist superiority undertones, and lacking content. Other than that, the bloke was lucky to have seen that masterpiece up close.

[Rapscallion]

Bravo Sierra

[Ditter]

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

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I once accidentally poked my finger into a Giotto at the National Gallery. Thank goodness the guy knew how to mix his pigments.

[Shalom Israel]

"Well, I’ve stroked him. I’ve run my hand along his naked body, and I’ve slapped that big, muscled thigh of his. Not a hard slap, mind you. Just a soft slap of affection that ended on a rub..."

Hey, Waldemar!

[bereanway]

Another figure I touched while the restorers’ backs were turned was a biblical character called Booz,

Is the name "Booz" supposed to be some sort of play on words or is the guy really that ignorant?

[Tench_Coxe]

You know, without even reading down the thread ( or having read the article beyond the first few paragraphs ), I'm going to hazard a guess: the author of the article is gay.

[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for posting. Good article.

[Tench_Coxe]

The most interesting thing from Michaelangelo that I saw was when the Vatican had items on tour around the United States. It was a letter to a supplier of marble, and in it, Michaelangelo was complaining about poor service, and even name dropped with some veiled threats. Amusing.

[Dog Gone]

Michelangelo was a genius and he was most certainly a homosexual.

If he had been born today, he probably would have been a fabulous interior decorator.

[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

Latest article: "Rep. Taylor's Office Caught in an Obvious Lie in Attempt to Smear John Armor"

[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.........

[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.

[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.