This ‘Sistine code’ theory is daft. Michelangelo is not a feminist hero | Jonathan Jones

The theory that there’s a human uterus and Fallopian tubes hiding in the Sistine chapel ceiling is a distraction from the real subversive message

It’s a lovely thought. Up in the heights of the very chapel where the all-male cardinals of the Catholic church meet in conclave to elect popes, there is a 500-year-old feminist code that mocks the misogyny of the Christian religion. A code so well-hidden and so subversive that only now can its shattering satire on Catholic patriarchy be revealed.

So claims Dr Deivis de Campos, researcher in human anatomy at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre in Brazil, who is the lead author of an article in the journal Clinical Anatomy which purports to identify hidden anatomical allusions in Michelangelo’s stupendous fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.

The discovery of the Fallopian tubes was in the mid-1500s, decades too late for the Sistine ceiling

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