Some neurosurgeon art fans say Michelangelo’s image of God in the Sistine Chapel is actually a diagram of the human brain. Can’t say why, exactly, but I think that’s a higher order of cool. If you will. Here’s the image–what do you think?
Quoth the article linked above:
“We propose that Michelangelo, a deeply religious man and an accomplished anatomist, intended to enhance the meaning of this iconographically critical panel and possibly document his anatomic accomplishments by concealing this sophisticated neuroanatomic rendering within the image of God,” write medical illustrator Ian Suk, BSc, BMC, and neurosurgeon Rafael Tamargo, MD, of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Anatomic accomplishments?
