Comments on: Michelangelo Code: Did Michelangelo Hide Secret Codes in the Sistine Chapel?

By: John Paul II

John Paul II — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:56:28 +0000

I've never laughed so hard as I did to Tom's witty thoughts. Very brilliant and funny. Kudos to you

By: RM

RM — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:00:47 +0000

The Roman Catholic Church is based on the Jewish faith...

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:48:00 +0000

I'm still waiting for the Donnatello and Raphael codes, so I can have a complete TMNT set of secret codes.

By: Deadmundo

Deadmundo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:33 +0000

Im sure that all of the old artists/sculptures (Da Vinci, Michelangelo) had nothing better to do than make wonderful and fun puzzles. everthing is a secret code or puzzle or clue to another puzzle. you could take a kids book and say that it has hidden messages if you want to. Makes historians look like they have figured something important out.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:27:44 +0000

You could probably pick out more arabic letters than anything else, since they have such a nice flow to them.

By: bean

bean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:31:20 +0000

Given the crazy shapes of the Hebrew alphabet, you could see Hebrew letters in any painting, cloud, or natural formation.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Well, I think its all bogus...and even if it isn't, so what. I saw on the tee-vee these authors explaining their point of view about M giving the pope "the bird". , What I think is more interesting than any kind of spite Mchelangelo might have expressed in his ceiling fresco, is that he created a giant skull out of his "last judgement" and I havent heard a word about that. I dont know...It's all historically corny if you ask me. The same hidden secrets have been placed on Vasari's pointed finger, of which, beneath lies The Battle of Anghiari.

By: Nicholas Dollak

Nicholas Dollak — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:41:11 +0000

For all his formidable skill as a sculptor, and modest skill as a painter, I have doubts that Michelangelo knew much about Judaism outside of the teachings of the church in Rome at the time. His famous statue "David" portrays David as uncircumcised; and his statue "Moses" boasts a pair of horns (from a mis-translation of a Hebrew word meant to connote "rays of light"). (He also didn't use female nude models, which is why his nude women look like young boys with strange fake breasts.) I'm pretty sure any resemblance between the shapes of the figures and the shapes of Hebrew letters is purely circumstantial. If you study the dynamic poses of figures in many Renaissance and Baroque paintings, you'll see the shapes of letters from various alphabets if you want to. As for the strictly Old Testament motif on the ceiling, that was the Pope's idea.