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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780061469053
ISBN: 006146905X
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: May 01, 2009
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Sales Rank: 1610181
Studio: HarperOne
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Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.
The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage 'fellow travelers' to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time.
'Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language.'—from the Preface
Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
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A thoughtful, thought-provoking and enlightening account of what's between the brush strokes of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. I highly recommend this fascinating, erudite and very readable book.
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I saw this advertised, but could not find it in stores. Glad I ordered it from Amazon. Enjoyed the book
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This book describes many of Michelangelo's high Renaissance artworks in the Vatican City, Florence and elsewhere and claims Michelangelo was directly influenced by Jewish religious teachings of the Talmud, Midrash and Kabbalah in his subject matter as well as deeper symbolic messages of Christian religious art, particularly in the Sistine Chapel.
The authors note that Michelangelo was virtually adopted by Lorenzo de Medici and educated in an intellectual environment of the de Medici ... Read More
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According to this very intriguing book, Michelangelo was a "humanist and Neoplatonist" who had a deep appreciation of Judaism and especially the Kabbalah, reflected amazingly in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which depicts not one Christian saint or hero.... only Jewish ones!!
Among other things, this book confirms that Sandro Botticelli, Signorelli and numerous other Italian painters of the period 1400-1600 hid "secret symbols" in their paintings, much of it "anti-Vatican-establishment." ... Read More
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AND PEOPLE WERE PLAYING THE LP'S BACKWARDS TO FIND HIDDEN CLUES TO THEIR WHEREABOUTS. THE 'DISCOVERY' OF OUTLINES OF HEBREW LETTERS IN THE FIGURES DEPICTED IN THE FRESCO IS EQUALLY OF QUESTIONABLE LEGITIMACY.
A BIT OF A REACH. THE REST OF THE CONJECTURES ARE MORE INTERESTING AS CLEARLY MICHELANGELO WAS A PHILO-SEMITE AND RESENTFUL OF THE CHURCH'S CORRUPTION. FUN READ WHICH WOULD MAKE A VISIT TO THE SISTINE CHAPEL (FOR THOSE WHO CAN ENTER) THAT MUCH MORE ENGAGING AFTER GLEANING THE INFORMATION.
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