TimesOnline: The new Da Vinci Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel -Cristina Ruiz
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The new Da Vinci Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel -Cristina Ruiz
A Venezuelan diplomat visited the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1950 and made a startling discovery. At the heart of the Vatican, in the place where the College of Cardinals meets to elect each new pope, Joaquin Diaz Gonzalez identified a colossal portrait of the medieval poet Dante contained within Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgement. The artist, argued Gonzalez, had secretly arranged the figures of the resurrected into the distinctive profile of the Florentine author of The Divine Comedy, a hidden tribute to the writer whose great poem Michelangelo so admired he had learnt great tracts of it by heart.
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