Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/11

4 June 2005

 * ...that a physician has put forward the claim that background of the figure of God in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam is an anatomically accurate picture of the human brain?
 * ...that Mahatma Gandhi once said that the British art critic John Ruskin had been the single greatest influence in his life?
 * ...that in 1930 stamps depicting Goya's painting The Nude Maja were issued in Spain, but the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps?
 * ...that the Art Institute of Chicago counts among its famous alumni Walt Disney, who failed to graduate, and Hugh Hefner, who took anatomy classes?
 * ...that the derogatory term 'plop art' is used for uninspiring sculptures made for public places such as office plazas?