In the fresco by Michelangelo, scientists have discovered an image of the brain
ARTinvestment.RU   28 июня 2010

Scientists have discovered one of the rare anatomical image brush of Michelangelo, the former is on everyone's mind, but unrecognized for five hundred years.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) identified one of the rare anatomical image brush of Michelangelo, the former is on everyone's mind, but unrecognized for five hundred years. As suggested doctors, Michelangelo painted some of the human brain to fresco the Sistine Chapel.

As you know, Michelangelo dissecting corpses and studied the structure of human internal organs, to make their work maximally faithful to the terms of the structure the human body. However, not many of his anatomical images are preserved. Images of the brain and brain stem, referred to - is not the first image of authority, which saw or tried to see scientists at the Sistine frescoes by Michelangelo. In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article on an encrypted image of the brain in the fresco The Creation of Adam, and in 2000 Doctor Nephrologist from Baylor University (USA) suggested in a medical journal that Michelangelo's "hidden" image buds all in one same Capelle.

last finding was made on the mural "The division of Light and Darkness", one of nine paintings of Genesis. The figure of the Creator, dressed in red robes, wearing a short beard, opening the neck. It is on the neck neurosurgeon Rafael Tamargo (Dr. Rafael J. Tamargo) saw encrypted lower part of the brain, brain stem, a part of the temporal lobe and the beginning of the spinal cord.

According to the scientist, the neck of the fresco is very different from similar images in the chapel. It has the shape and lines that do not correspond to its anatomy. Irregularities can not be accidental mistake of the artist as Michelangelo's perfectly versed in the structure of any body part.

in favor of the version Tamargo said that the Creator of Michelangelo, usually depicted with a long beard falling and only on the fresco in his short beard, which opens the neck. Strange is the spot: while light on the whole body of God comes from below the left neck, he falls right in calling attention to this part of the fresco.

hypothesis scientist from Baltimore, received a mixed assessment of in the academic world among art historians. While some consider the arguments very convincing Tamargo, others tend to subject them to questioning. As the art historian from Pennsylvania, Brian Curran (Brian A. Curran), «can not forbid people to watch, but sometimes the neck - it is just a neck».

Material prepared Maria Onuchina , AI

Sources: nytimes.com , artinvestment.ru