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"Just as the work of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel changed forever the world of art, so will this book change forever the way to view and, above all, to understand the work of Michelangelo!"
-- Enrico Bruschini, Official Art Historian for the U.S. Embassy in Rome
"This book of astounding revelations is built on careful scholarship,
lucid exposition, and it is, above all, compelling reading."
--Jonathan Harr, author of the New York Times bestsellers The
Lost Painting and A Civil Action |
ABOUT
THE SISTINE SECRETS
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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The Sistine Secrets
Michelangelo's
Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
By Benjamin
Blech, Roy
Doliner
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