28 juillet 2010
"Dynasty" @ Palais de Tokyo

28 juillet 2010
Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Fresco
Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Fresco
BALTIMORE ().- Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator, published in the May Neurosurgery, may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes' figures. Michelangelo is... [Lire la suite]