米开朗基罗的西斯廷教堂天顶壁画：关于大脑的交流。

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Frescoes: communications about the brain.

机构信息

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, VA Palo Alto Health Care System , Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Biology Department, Temple University , Aspen, CO, USA.

出版信息

Neurocase. 2020 Oct;26(5):293-298. doi: 10.1080/13554794.2020.1813477. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

DOI:10.1080/13554794.2020.1813477

PMID:32886575

Abstract

In a 1990 JAMA cover story Frank Meshberger reported that Michelangelo's central composition on the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512), The Creation of Adam, portrays God in the form of a brain. The present report suggests that Michelangelo's images on the chapel ceiling depicting Creation describe the course of vertebrate brain development. Further, on the front wall of the Sistine Chapel, within the work titled The Last Judgment (1525-1541), the central ellipse, where Jesus is making judgments about good and evil, represents a mid-coronal cross-section of a human brain, implying that the brain is man's instrument for making decisions.

摘要

在 1990 年《美国医学会杂志》的一篇封面报道中，弗兰克·梅什伯格（Frank Meshberger）报道称，米开朗基罗（Michelangelo）在西斯廷教堂天花板上创作的中央作品（1508-1512 年）《创造亚当》（The Creation of Adam）描绘了以大脑形式出现的上帝。本报告表明，米开朗基罗在教堂天花板上描绘创世的图像描述了脊椎动物大脑发育的过程。此外，在西斯廷教堂的前墙，在题为《最后的审判》（1525-1541 年）的作品中，中央椭圆形，耶稣正在判断善恶，代表了一个人类大脑的中冠状横截面，这意味着大脑是人类做出决策的工具。