02-09-2016 18:49 via theguardian.com

This ‘Sistine code’ theory is daft. Michelangelo is not a feminist hero | Jonathan Jones

The theory that there’s a human uterus and Fallopian tubes hiding in the Sistine chapel ceiling is a distraction from the real subversive messageIt’s a lovely thought. Up in the heights of the very chapel where the all-male cardinals of the Catholic church meet in conclave to elect popes, there is a 500-year-old feminist code that mocks the misogyny of the Christian religion. A code so well-hidden and so subversive that only now can its shattering satire on Catholic patriarchy be rev
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