Michelangelo's Medici Chapel May Contain Hidden Symbols of Female Anatomy (IMAGE)

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Michelangelo's Medici Chapel May Contain Hidden Symbols of Female Anatomy

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FIGURE 4. Highlight showing the sides of the tombs containing the bull/ram skulls, spheres/circles linked by cords and the shell (A). Note the similarity of the skull and horns to the uterus and fallopian tubes, respectively (B). The shell contained in image A clearly resembles the shell contained in Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1483), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy (C). Image B of the uterus and adnexa from Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy with permission Philadelphia: Elsevier.

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