Frank and Ernest by Thaves for April 22, 2012
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Transcript:
Painting the Sistine Chapel 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 Frank: It looks great, Michelangelo, but there's one thing I don't understand.... Frank: Why didn't you just paint it the regular way and then mount it on the ceiling?
Phatts over 12 years ago
now you tell me!!
walruscarver2000 over 12 years ago
They didn’t have Fresco back then, just Coke and Pepsi. (Sorry,it’s early.)
KEA over 12 years ago
Yes, MB had to come up with his own mixture which took several tries as I remember – and then it dripped in his eyes and nearly blinded him.
danlarios over 12 years ago
you missed a spot
Poollady over 12 years ago
with what? superglue?
iced tea over 12 years ago
That’s something I always wondered about. Michelangelo was so fascinated by the naked bodies of humans.
treBsdrawkcaB over 12 years ago
Michaelangelo should have just painted the ceiling pure white, painted the images in Photoshop and then made a multi-media system to Project the images on the ceiling – with sounds. Done right, the images could even move and act out the entire Bible. …as long as he has all that time that the Pope wouldn’t let him sculpt… See the movie “The Agony & The Ecstasy” with Harrison Ford and Charton Heston.
bmonk over 12 years ago
“The dichotomy is a reflection of the Manichaen attitude of duality and conflict between “physical/material” reality and “spiritual perfection”. Physical/material reality is something “lesser” than the fantasy of “spiritual perfectuion”; and, for most, if not all, Western belief-systems/religions, the striving to become “pure/spiritual/perfect” – and, in consequence, actually UN-REAL – is a constant, and debilitating, struggle – which never results in growth, development, or advancement of human reality.”
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Oh? What of Catholics, who find the spiritual through the physical?
And even the monks, who simply sought God, and along the way—because they needed to read in order to pray—they “saved” Western Civilization by preserving the classic texts in their libraries?