Michelangelo Hid a Human Brain Inside the Sistine Chapel

The hidden brain in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling went unnoticed for almost 500 years until a physician spotted it in 1990. The film traces Michelangelo's secret dissections at Santo Spirito in Florence, his four furious years painting nine Genesis scenes on scaffolding for Pope Julius II, and Frank Meshberger's JAMA analysis of God's cloak as an anatomically accurate brain. It weighs intentional code, unconscious anatomy, pareidolia and why scholars remain divided.