There will be wigs on the green in the Vatican when the pope studies what art historian Elena Lazzarini says about Michelangelo using male prostitutes as models for his Sistine Chapel ‘ Last Judgment ‘
fresco. The art historian in her book Nudity, Art and Decorum claims Michelangelo was a regular visitor to bathhouses and brothels and places of promiscuity. Having visited Pompeii the lost city nothing would surprise me! No pope there that I saw.
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Eamonn Mallie
I am a regular contributor to discussion programmes on TV and radio both at home and abroad. An experienced political editor and author specialising in Politics, Security and 20th Century Art.