More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned him to create many of its most important pieces, including the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. He spent his life glorifying the Church, etching Catholic ideals into masterpieces that defined religion for the masses. Yet when he died, his body was secretly shepherded off to Florence, and the Church was denied the opportunity to honor him with a grand funeral in Rome. Historians have long wondered about the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, but now, art historian Antonio Forcellino believes he has pieced together evidence of a deep rift between the Church and the esteemed artist. The cause: Michelangelo’s belief in Protestant ideals, and his involvement with a clandestine fellowship trying to put an end to the decadence and corruption of the Clergy and reform the Church from within.
THIRTEEN’s Secrets of the Dead: Michelangelo Revealed premieres nationally, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). The film deconstructs the puzzling discrepancies between the sculptures Michelangelo created and the way he described them, revealing an intricate effort to carve his own beliefs into stone, while protecting himself from the wrath of a powerful Cardinal who viewed him as a heretic. Actor Liev Schreiber (CSI, upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine) narrates.
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Wow, just wow! You would think PBS wouldn’t air something so…..”abducted by UFO’s, big-footy”, and taut it as history. OK, I won’t even go into the complete lack of evidence of the assertion made of Michelangelo in the program. That has been addressed by some good commentators above. I will just stick to the more elementary and obvious falsehoods that anyone who has had a good catechism class or studied Catholicism would know, which apparently the “brilliant” mind who came up with this drivel never bothered to check or intentionally misrepresented. The Catholic Church does not now, did not then, nor has it ever, believed in salvation by “works” as the program, over and over, insists on and uses as a major point of contention affecting Michelangelo’s thinking. Ironically, such a belief is now, was then, and has always been, considered a heresy by the Church and has always been condemned. Comments concerning the bible and the Church’s view of Scripture, was also not just wrong, but the kind of wrong that a freshman student taking a class on Western Civ. would know. Just an awful or intentionally anti-Catholic program. Shame on you, PBS!
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I thought I was watching PBS, not reading tabloid magazines in the checkout aisle at the grocery store! What happend here PBS with “Secrets of the Dead”? Leave programing like this to the History Channel and others who want to present biased, opinionated history; sprinkled with facts, and mixed with speculation presented as fact. I can get that type of information anywhere. Please stop airing programs produced to draw attention, but rather please produce and air programs created to educate, inspire, and elevate our minds.
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