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

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

[flaglady47]

"Had George Washington been born in Thailand, for example, odds are we'd never have heard of him and he might not have ever accomplished anything noteworthy."

And his name wouldn't have been George Washington either.

[It's me]

Stopped reading after the "willy" part. Must be a sick jerk to write something like that.

[snarks_when_bored]

(laughing!)

[aruanan]

You'll find old Booz there in the geneology leading to Jesus.

It's always good to check before writing.

It's Boaz.

[aruanan]

Stopped reading after this ...

Should have kept going.

[hummingbird]

"Equivalent Exchange"....good point, Moshi-chan.

[sully777]

I don't know if this is a true story. Supposedly, archeologists unearthed a 16th century matchbook cover near the Vatican. Here's what it said:

"Want to paint the Sistine Chapel? If you can draw Winky and send it SASE to the Vatican, we may employ your talents. Signed, Michaelangelo"

[Ciexyz]

Boaz not Booz.

Why does every homage to a great person have to include their supposed deficiencies?

[Thumper1960]

Deficiencies in the great make them accessible to the average.

[binkdeville]

Author has a penis feticsh . Calling a Popr Uncle Fester is rude and crude. A royal a hole wrote this article.

[Ciexyz]

Thanks for posting Sistine Chapel artwork.

[grey_whiskers]

Well, someone's ignorant. Check Matthew 1:5. You'll find old Booz there in the geneology leading to Jesus.

Hi Mineral. Lotsa English translations show it as 'Boaz' with an 'a'.

This comment reminds me of the firm Booz, Allen, & Hamilton -- or, more simply, 'BAH' !

Cheeres!

[grey_whiskers]

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.

Anti-Democrat, pro-nuke, tongue-in-cheek Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

Yep. Is it necessarily a coincidence that a Democrat was commander-in-chief at the time?

[mware]

WTH....You sure this is not from The Onion????

[grey_whiskers]

Speaking of Michelangelo and mistranslations, howzabout Moses' famous horns?

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Nagasaki bomb was dropped by radar due to cloud cover.

[grey_whiskers]

Bet you didn't learn that one in Sunday School.

Try Judges 4, where Sisera gets his head nailed to the ground with a tent peg in his sleep. By a woman.

Talk about "empowerment".

Cheers!

[Yeti]

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

Fags say everyone famous was a fag. Jesus, Alexander, Michelangelo, all the Greeks.... "All your heroes are belong to us fags!"

If gays ever get their hands on a time machine, they'll go back in time and make it so.

[Mad Dawgg]

"How I would have loved to see them myself!"

When a tour of artifacts from the Sistine Chapel stopped in Cincinnati recently I had the pleasure of attending with my wife's church group.

I was delighted to find many works of Michelangelo's in the collection and they had a very large mock-up in which you walked through that showed how "He" painted the Chapel ceiling using scaffolds and such.

It was costly but I would pay double to see it all again!

[AndyJackson]

This is British journalistic writing at its worst. Dry, self-important, full of colonialist superiority undertones, and lacking content.

Actually, I think it incredibly good writing. It takes great talent to write an opening sentence that catches your eye and forces you to read what is, in fact, a well-written article. It is packed with humor and irony, and most of it very good illuminating fact. That we learn that Michaelangelo was as easy to put up with as a modern prima donna - well, such is the way of genius.

Also, I don't know what colonialist superiority undertones are. Usually cononials are not accused of having superior airs, except perhaps boorish overbearing Americans. It is an awfully difficult crime to charge a Pole with in any case.