This is one of the lesser known elements of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel work. It is also one of the more interesting as it is part of a series of panels that gets the chonology of Noah wrong and also depicts Noah's sons as both mocking his nakedness and preparing to cover it. The worker at left is said to be in a vineyard, which is where Noah's trouble with alcohol all began.
If I had been on a boat crammed full of animals and relatives for 40 days and nights , I'd want to get plastered too-Dee Exx
ReplyDeleteI'd want to get a bath.
DeleteNoah invented wine, so the story goes. Not his fault if he was, like Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited, "unused to wine".
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that, probably because I was a Sunday school dropout.
DeleteAre they all circumsized?
ReplyDeleteWhy would they be? Abraham was Shem's grandson, IIRC.
DeleteIsrael started that $#!+.
DeleteSarah rebuked him.
The the tradition waned. (The covenant was broken)
Then the repentant jews tried to reinstate and insist it never be stopped.
Jesus came along and said, "That bus has left the station. No free passes."
I’ve always loved this part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
ReplyDeleteI've never figured out why the sons were mocking and then coverning Noah's nakedness when they were rmostly naked themselves.
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