Dear Marcus,
Yes, that certainly is God, just viewed at a different time in the action.
Early painters often included later events side by side --a sort of
precursor of cinema.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
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From: "Marcus Bales" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] New Poem: Blind Sight-Michelangelo's view
> That's God's back? It looks like God is throwing someone out of
> somewhere, and it's the someone whose cleavage we see.
> M
>
>
> On 20 Dec 2003 at 0:14, grasshopper wrote:
>
> > Michelangelo painted God's back view in the Sistine Chapel, complete
> > with the feature we (in the UK, at least) describe as plumbers'
> > cleavage.
> > http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~mcogan/Humanities/Sistine/Panels/plants.
> > jpg I thought that was very interesting and I wrote a poem about it.
> > Kind regards,
> > grasshopper
> >
> >
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