I think because of the upcoming movie, PBS aired a neat-o "Secrets of the Dead" about Michelangelo. Michelangelo was part of a group called "The Spirituali", which also included, and was in fact headed by Reginald Pole. I did not know that Reginald Pole (this is a sorta bullshisse link to the Crazy Catholic entry on Reginald Pole) was actually a progressive Catholic with many more Lutheran ideas than even Henry VIII. In "The Tudors", he just seems like he hates Henry because Henry eschews Catholicism from England. But it looks as if that's artistic license that Tudors writers are taking with history. They don't let the Reginald Pole character have any depth whatsoever, he's just this steadfast against Protestantism.
I went to the PBS "Secrets of the Dead: Michelangleo Revealed" website. There's all kinds of poo-poo from Adamant Catholics, hating on the documentary and throwing in some hatred for Dan Brown and Angels and Demons, too. Then there's someone promoting his website that's anti-Catholic, too. Ha ha. I wrote this:
This comment section is almost as interesting as the program itself! This documentary is prescient for its pairing with the release of “Angels and Demons” and also with The Tudors. It shows a very different Reginald Pole than the one currently portrayed, rather one-dimensionally, in the very fun though not always historically accurate “The Tudors”. The figure that grabbed my attention most was Vittoria Colonna. I love finding out about women who shaped history. And finally, forget the religion stuff you all are arguing about! As a poet, I took exception to one of the commentators saying that the reformist Spirituali did not succeed over the conservatives because they were artists and poets and therefore lacked discipline. Ummm…does the Sistine Chapel look like work that comes from someone who lacks discipline? C’mon, man, give us artsy people some credit here! Thanks for a very provocative and topical show!
Because, honestly, if artsy people really lacked discipline, how would anything ever be created? Weirdo prejudiced facty fact man. Lame-o.
Michelangelo didn't live anywhere near the period Jesus Christ was here on earth.
ReplyDeleteWhat Michelangelo's relationship was with the Catholic Church has absolutely no basis for any relevance to Jesus Christ, our Lord.
I can tell you I have been involved in dozens and dozens of conversation with Dan Brown type fans about Michelangelo AND Leonardo da Vinci and such things as his painting of the Last Supper.
It is astonishing just how many people are purely ignorant. It is as if Michelangelo's and Leonardo da Vinci's ART work, politics and religious views and science had some sort of outcome or conclusion of religious fact pertaining to Jesus Christ and/or the existence of God. IT DOES NOT!
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born 1475 and died at age 88 in 1564. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born in 1452 and died at age 67 1519.
A period of time 1500 YEARS AFTER CHRIST!
These guys were artist and creators of ideas and that has nothing to do with any basis of facts in regards to Jesus Christ, rather their works and/or beliefs (philosophy) were positive or negative.
No more than what you say has any basis of fact.
The only basis of facts and the only instrument of truth is the Holy Bible.
"The only basis of facts and the only instrument of truth is the Holy Bible."
ReplyDeleteHuh. Well the Bible wasn't written until well after the death of Christ either. It's pretty much a 3rd, 4th or 5th hand account of stories that were embellished upon by a multitude of "religious" men in the centuries that followed.
Do you know that the Church leaders did not want the "common people" to be able to read the Bible? Because that would open it up to interpertation other than what the Church wanted. Which is crap, because the Church had already interperted the stories to fit their own myth cannon that they were forcing on the people.
The Bible is as much fiction as Dan Brown's novels are. Sure, there are some good messages in there, and some really hot sex poems, but otherwise, its just a really long novel.