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Binding: PaperbackDewey 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 Studio: HarperOne Sales Rank: 1134509 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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.
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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Sistine Secrets Revealed!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. Rating:  - glad i purchased thisI saw this advertised, but could not find it in stores. Glad I ordered it from Amazon. Enjoyed the book Rating:  - Michelangelo's Jewish agenda? Reference, please . . .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 Rating: - Secret Protestant polemicAccording 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 Rating: - REMEMBER WHEN THE BEATLES DISAPPEARED IN THE 60'S...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. Browse for similar items by category:
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