Thursday, November 11

 


Professor M. explains the Julius II-inspired iconography of the Sistine Chapel today in class:

"...the bearded old white man factor..."

And here, on the drunkenness of Noah:

"...old bearded white man is not looking so good..."

Actually, it was a very cool lecture: do you know, for example, that the chancel screen in the chapel falls precisely beneath the image of the expulsion from Paradise?

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