r/todayilearned • u/MyKinkyCountess • 4d ago

TIL that Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/31/michelangelo-secret-sketches-under-church-in-florence-open-to-public
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 4d ago

IIRC, Michelangelo worked on fortifications for the city after the Medici were deposed and the city was put to siege. They eventually forgave him, and he kept working on the chapel.

Basically he participated in military action against his patrons and got pardoned.

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u/TheUmgawa 4d ago

I was so hoping it was because Adam was hung like John Holmes, and the Pope sentenced Michelangelo to death unless he changed it to a more humble model.

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u/GBreezy 3d ago

Back then having a small penis was a sign of masulinity and virility

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u/Gwilym_Ysgarlad 3d ago

I was born in the wrong time.

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u/Andromansis 3d ago

according to the bible women lust after horse sized penises that shoot donkeys or something.

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u/Asron87 3d ago

Hung like a donkey and shoots like a horse.

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u/Andromansis 3d ago

Right, and there was that one story of that guy that used his foreskin as a floatation device and everybody just said he was swallowed by a whale.

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u/MrBrigi 3d ago

Excuse me, what?

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u/TheUmgawa 3d ago

I believe that was the story of Nick Jonas and the Whale.

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u/Leon_Howser 2d ago

Didn't Catherine the great have a great fall..