Chapter 2467 the furthest distance

Georgiana took the painting that Raggett handed her.

As the black velvet covering the painting was slowly opened, what caught her eyes was a sketch drawn by red and black pencils. The woman in the painting had a gentle smile on her mouth, which looked very much like a Renaissance painting. Add in the age of the paper, and it could really be Renaissance.

"This is Michelangelo's lover, Victoria Colonna," Laggette explained. "He met her when he was 60."

Georgiana looked at the woman in the painting. She was actually not good-looking, or she did not have the softness of a woman. Instead, she looked a bit like a man, with a high forehead and a long and straight nose. Considering that Michelangelo made the Sistine mural The women in are all drawn with strong muscles, maybe he likes this style.

"What do you think?" Raggett asked expectantly.

"I don't feel anything." Georgiana said silently.

Raggett looked disappointed.

Georgiana felt that she shouldn't have been so honest just now, and she should have said something flattering, after all, Raggett sent her the painting early in the morning.

"The Pieta was also carved by Michelangelo." Laggette said dejectedly, "You say the Madonna is smiling because she has a brave son."

"Oh!" Georgiana understood, and she looked at Victoria in the painting again.

She's not young anymore, and Michelangelo didn't "handle" those wrinkles like other painters. This kind of "honesty" is actually quite annoying.

"I hardly know her," Georgiana said after a moment. "I mean, not the rumors."

Raggett was confused.

"I heard that Michelangelo has a weird personality." She explained helplessly.

"I thought you were talking about something else."

Facing Georgiana's puzzled eyes, Raggett said, "He once wrote love letters to men."

"But you just said that Victoria was Michelangelo's lover, she is a woman, right?" Georgiana looked at Victoria's masculine face.

"She had a marriage." Laggette said, "Victoria's father was Prince Tagliacozzo, one of the most noble nobles in Italy at that time, and her first husband was General Francesco Teia. Wallow, she loves him, but he doesn't love her, he still likes someone with a softer appearance."

Georgiana straightened her face.

"It was a marriage that made her miserable. After her husband died, she devoted herself to religious work. At the age of forty-three, she met Michelangelo."

"But I heard that Michelangelo never married."

"Yes, they were all living in the monastery near Cavallo Hill at the time."

Georgiana was even more confused.

"They were purely emotional," Raggert said.

"Oh!" Georgiana suddenly realized.

"She compared Michelangelo to a city with drawbridges, fortifications, and pits. Most people couldn't conquer him, but she did it."

"How did she do it?" Georgiana asked.

"I also have the same question. How did you quiet down the First Consul?" Raggett smiled ambiguously.

Georgiana looked down at the red and black pencil sketches, and Victoria's smile suddenly became as mysterious as that of Mona Lisa.

"What do you want?" Georgiana put away the scroll and handed it to Margaret.

"Do you have to give presents when you have something to do?" Raggett said with a smile.

Georgiana tilted her head to look at him.

"You accepted the painting because it was painted by Michelangelo?" Laggette asked.

"Part of it," said Georgiana, who would never tell Laggette that she wanted to hear about Michelangelo's affairs.

"She would give Michelangelo some small gifts. You must know that this suspicious old man never accepts gifts from others, just like those things are Trojan horses." Laggett said with a smile, "Can you imagine facing Would Michelangelo, who was not afraid of Pope Julius II, be timid when facing Victoria?"

"No." Georgiana pricked up her ears. "He accepted her gift?"

"In order to refuse those gifts, he had to go to her himself," Laggert said with a smile. "Michelangelo was reserved in this regard."

"and after?"

"Michelangelo believes that a good painting is close to God and combined with God. It is a copy of God, just like the creation of Adam in the painting of the Sistine Ceiling. Adam was painted by God in his own image. That is to say, God and Adam may look like twins, but God created Adam as an old man with a white beard, while Adam was still a young man."

"Time," Georgiana said.

"Why do you think so?"

"Mortals get old," Georgiana said, "and Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and found the leaves to cover their bodies. Maybe the old man in clothes is the old Adam."

"But the old man flies in mid-air."

"Aren't there many angels holding him up? And there is cloth, the wind blows the cloth all over." Georgiana thought for a while and said, "Adam will go to see God even after he dies, even if he lives to be 800 years old." .”

Raggett was lost in thought.

Georgiana was also lost in thought.

Adam and Eve gave birth to many children, the eldest son Cain, the second son Abel, the two caused the first murder because of the issue of offering sacrifices to God.

The name of the eldest son Cain means "deserve", the second son Abel means "vanity", and the name of the third son Seth means gift.

Why is Abel called "vanity"?

"do you know……"

Georgiana and Raggett spoke together.

"You go first." Raggett said politely.

"Do you know what are the Sistine ceiling paintings?" Georgiana asked.

"Go get them," Raggett said to the secretary.

"No!" cried Georgiana.

The two looked at her together.

"Those murals, let them stay where they are!" said Georgiana.

"You misunderstood." Laggert said with a smile. "There are many people copying the Sistine ceiling painting."

"I can't go back with so many paintings." Georgiana said, "What did you want to ask just now?"

"I was wondering why God and Adam were pointing at each other in that painting," Laggett said. "If it's true as you say, the young, naked man is God, and the mountain he's lying on is Where?"

"I hadn't thought about it before," Georgiana said.

"Neither have I." Laggett sighed. "In Original Sin and Excommunication, angels wear clothes."

"I think Michelangelo explained this to the Pope." Georgiana shook her head. "He also painted one of them in hell."

"And Noah was drunk," Laggert said with a laugh. "Noah cursed the boy who clothed him."

Georgiana was speechless for a moment.

"Do you still want that painting?" the secretary asked.

"Of course! Go, boy!" cried Raggett impatiently.

When he was gone, Raggett complained, "If I had good eyes, I'd be of no use to him."

Georgiana kept quiet.

Adam and Eve gave birth to many children, full of descendants, but God is lonely. If the young one is really God, judging from the body movements, the young one is more lazy, while the old one is generally considered to be God’s That one is even more eager, as if reaching out a hand, eager to hook something.

Both the Sistine ceiling and the Last Judgment were painted by Michelangelo when he was in his prime. In the Last Judgment, Jesus is no longer crucified or removed from the cross, looking weak and suffering, but It is strong and youthful.

There is a legend that when the people of the church accepted the painting, they believed that God and man were inaccessible, so Michelangelo asked Michelangelo to modify the finished painting. Originally, the fingers connecting God and Adam were as seen by later generations. separated like that.

Georgiana's eyes turned involuntarily to the red and black sketch of Victoria.

Should she put this painting on display in the Louvre?