Frank meshberger michelangelo biography

In the following sonnet, Michelangelo explains how he creates sculpture and painting and how, I believe, God himself gave man the gift of intellect.
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In the year 1990, an American doctor Frank Lynn Meshberger published a comparative observation in a paper titled “An Interpretation of.

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Michelangelo’s Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel: A Juxtaposition of God and the Human Brain

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American

At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architect—was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes. Now, 500 years after he drew them, his hidden anatomical illustrations have been found—painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cleverly concealed from the eyes of Pope Julius II and countless religious worshipers, historians, and art lovers for centuries—inside the body of God.

This is the conclusion of Ian Suk and Rafael Tamargo, in their paper in the May 2010 issue of the scientific journal Neurosurgery. Suk

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An interpretation of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam based on neuroanatomy

JAMA. 1990 Oct 10;264(14):1837-41.

Affiliation

¹ St John's Medical Center, Anderson, Ind.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Art / history*
Brain / anatomy & histology*
Christianity
Famous Persons*
History, 16th Century
Humans
Italy
Male
Medicine in the Arts*
Paintings / history*

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The Secrets of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam“

Undoubtedly, one of his most iconic masterpieces, Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” has long been a worldwide topic of debate and fascination among scholars, philosophers and artists.

As an iconic sculptor, Michelangelo was initially hesitant to begin his painting work on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling when commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508. The most debated of the breathtaking frescoes he created up until 1512 for the chapel’s ceiling is, without a doubt, the Creation of Adam which, as made clear by the title, depicts the moment God gave life to Adam from the Book of Genesis.

In 1990, Frank Lynn Meshberger, M.D proposed that the painting may be hiding an anatomical depiction of the human brain and that the depicted God is superimposed on the emotional side of the brain, the limbic system. Michelangelo Buonarotti was known for believing in the creative power of his mind, attributing his success to this power and developing it continuously over the course of his life. He famously stated