Two neurosurgery researchers at Johns Hopkins University say Michelangelo hid something within one of his Sistine Chapel frescoes: an anatomically accurate painting of the human brain.
And they found it in God’s neck in the fresco, The Separation of Light from Darkness. That’s the painting immediately above the chapel’s altar, says Dr. Rafael Tamargo, a neurosurgery professor and co-author of an article in the journal Neurosurgery.
“As we studied the lines that Michelangelo had included in the neck, we were surprised to find that if you follow these lines, you can actually draw an anatomically correct view of the brainstem,” Tamargo tells NPR’s Robert Siegel.
via Did Michelangelo Draw A Brain in God’s Neck? : NPR.
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