Sistine Chapel: Papal Insult?
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=4718693&page=1
Was the Sistine Ceiling a Papal Insult?
New Book Asks If Michelangelo Embedded Hidden Messages in the Sistine's Frescoes
By RALPH AVELLINO, JENNA MILLMAN and DANIEL HUYSSEN
April 28, 2008
For centuries, people of all faiths have come to Rome and the Sistine Chapel to stare up at its immense ceiling and see Michelangelo's stunning masterpiece. To most, it is a beautiful vision from the Old Testament, frescoes painted on wet plaster of the stories of the creation of the universe, Noah's ark and Adam and Eve.
Dr. Arnold Nesselrath, the curator of the Vatican Museums, says people flock to the Sistine Chapel because "it's one of the greatest works of mankind that were ever produced and it's one of the greatest treasures of art."
But there are those who look at the 500-year-old frescoes — and see hidden messages.
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