Michelangelo's art was shopping lists

For illiterate slugNet nothing worse than going to the grocery store, even when you have no idea what to buy so many make up a complete list of all the necessary house. We are all so monitor how much we spend and how much we eat.

This method is used even by Michelangelo - he was for his servants to the shopping list. However, his servants were illiterate, but Michelangelo was a great artist and in front of each word drew a picture: on the contrary the meat - meat in front of wine - a bottle of wine.







Michelangelo lived in the period from 1475 till 1564, he was a painter, sculptor and thinker of the Renaissance. His most famous sculptures, "Pietà" and "David," he created when he was not yet thirty. As for the murals, it was he who wrote the "Last Judgment" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. However, even such a great man had to use his talent just to buy food at the grocer.

One of these lists can be seen at the Museum "Casa Buonarroti". It is part of a collection of "Michelangelo, private and public: the work of the Sistine Chapel and other treasures».

via factroom.ru