The Michealangelo Code ("Fact or Fiction")?

[centurionguard]

Did Michelangelo paint “secret codes” in the Sistine Chapel based on esoteric Jewish symbolism? Did he give the Pope the finger? According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner, authors of The Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo’s Defiant Masterpiece, he did. Critics call the book an example of “Dan Brown syndrome” and as attacks on the Catholic Church. I myself have yet to find any true scrutiny or critical defence made by the Vatican in reference to the so called (“Michealangelo Code”)
I would appreciate some discerning reviews here at C.A.F. See: youtube.com/watch?v=fkxMgS017J0 aish.com/societyWork/arts/The_Michelangelo_Code.asp michelangelocode.com/ and telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel.html

 

[Gene_Church]

In reviewing your “sources,” in a word, NO.

The Vatican has not addressed this, because it has not become relevant enough to hit their radar screen. The same thing happened with Dan Brown. And I see these men as trying to make money as Dan Brown did.

 

[PhoenixRoach]

Except these two Jewish scholars operate at a level of academic rigor an order of magnitude higher then Dan Brown, for one.

And secondly, there is no question of their historical assertion that Michelangelo was 1.) profoundly disturbed by the incredible corruption of the Popes of his era, just prior to the Reformation, and 2.) He was profoundly influenced by the neo-Platonic, Cabalistic syncretism of the era.

I’ve read the book, and to put these two in the same league with Dan Brown is ludicrous, from a scholarship standpoint. Rabbi Blech was selected by Pope John Paul II personally to represent the Jewish people during the Jubilee Year 2000 festivities, and was granted unprecedented extended unescorted access to the Sistine Chapel by the Vatican.

Judge this one on its merits, folks;

 

[centurionguard]

In reviewing your “sources,” in a word, NO.

The Vatican has not addressed this, because it has not become relevant enough to hit their radar screen. The same thing happened with Dan Brown. And I see these men as trying to make money as Dan Brown did.

((“The Vatican has not addressed this, because it has not become relevant enough to hit their radar screen.”)) My question is whether the Vatican’s complete avoidance on this topic is deliberate. Why should they be afraid to make a scrutinizing assessment regarding this topic unless they have something ambiguous to cover up. Now don’t misinterpret what I’m stating. I personally am making no allegations duly supporting such sources that I gave.
I am just puzzled as to why (The Michelangelo Code) hasn’t been expounded on from a number of conservative legitimate critical sources in the Church.

 

[Leopard]

The only thing I have ever heard of that even remotely resembles this is that he allegedly painted the faces of some of his critics among the damned in Hell.

 

[thistle]

Did Michelangelo paint “secret codes” in the Sistine Chapel based on esoteric Jewish symbolism? Did he give the Pope the finger? According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner, authors of The Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo’s Defiant Masterpiece, he did. Critics call the book an example of “Dan Brown syndrome” and as attacks on the Catholic Church. I myself have yet to find any true scrutiny or critical defence made by the Vatican in reference to the so called (“Michealangelo Code”)
I would appreciate some discerning reviews here at C.A.F. See: youtube.com/watch?v=fkxMgS017J0 aish.com/societyWork/arts/The_Michelangelo_Code.asp michelangelocode.com/ and telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2163492/Michelangelo-hid-secret-code-in-Sistine-Chapel.html

All of this is pure fiction. Why would the Church waste its time rebutting every ridiculous claim that comes along.

 

[LynnGM]

It reeks of “Dan Brown Syndrome”.