Though talented with a brush, the Renaissance masters didn’t know much about art preservation. So over the years their paintings faded with exposure to sunlight. Even Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was subjected to sun damage until the Vatican sealed off its windows in the 1980s. But soon visitors will be…
This faux trailer from the upcoming LEGO Movie Blu-Ray answers a question we never thought to ask: What if Michelangelo (the artist, not the turtle) teamed up with Abraham Lincoln for a time-traveling buddy cop movie set to a 1970s soundtrack? It would be out of sight. Will Forte even reprises his LEGO Movie role…
Artist Simone Bianchi chooses a surprising inspiration for his Batman tableau, changing the hands of creation into hands of reaching, and adding a demonic quality to Batman’s foes. [via Xombie DIRGE]
Michelangelo Buonarroti was too busy to buy food, so he used to send his illiterate servant with grocery shopping lists like the one above, illustrated in 1518. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.
While we’re used to seeing Michelangelo’s majestic finished paintings, this shopping list gives us a look at the master’s more hasty and practical drawing. This is an illustrated list that Michelangelo would have given to an illiterate servant. Steve Duin at The Oregonian explained the purpose of the list while it was on display at…
Lemongrab might be cranky about Melanie Herring‘s Adventure Time-themed reimagining of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, but we can’t argue with those lemony abs. Herring (who also goes by purplekecleon) has prints of this parody available in her store, and you can also follow her on Tumblr. The Creation of Lemon [purplekecleon via Neatorama]
Artist Dejan Jovanovic uses Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam as the jumping-off point for this delirious piece of Prometheus fanart. He then starts his god-like figure with a few dozen human characteristics before twisting the whole thing into a Giger-esque anatomical nightmare. Jovanovic also has plenty of safer for work Alien and Prometheus-inspired artwork in his…
