Good contribution, I am aware of that, I was dealing with the image posted and the claim that it is an orgy.

You're welcome. If anything, this history might back up what you're saying, unless if that specific image you are discussing caused similar controversy as The Last Judgement did. Why does it seem that the controversy around The Last Judgement is more well known than with that particular image? I should do some more research, but it seems to me that image did not cause controversy, or may have caused a little controversy, in comparison to The Last Judgement. 

Another word on Michelangelo: he was a complicated man. One of his heroes (and one of my own) was the great Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, who he painted as being among the just (alongside another notable Florentine, Dante Alighieri) in The Last Judgement. It is said that Michelangelo often carried on him Savonarola's book The Triumph of the Cross, and that while painting Sistine Chapel, he recalled Savonarola's powerful sermons (Michelangelo was in Florence while Savonarola was there, and heard some of his preaching in person). If Michelangelo had issues with sodomy, he certainly wasn't proud of it, as Savonarola was noted for his immense opposition to that sin, as Florence under the friar's oversight saw strong anti-sodomy laws be put in place. Secular commentators recall those measures with disdain for the man; we Catholics should remember it happily. 

It does not make sense, in my view, for Michelangelo to have looked up to so thoroughly Catholic a priest as Savonarola while being a proud sodomite, as such hardened sinners would look down on a man like that. 

Sometimes fame, fortune and extraordinary genius is from satan.

It is out in the open these days that people have sold their souls for fame, fortune and extraordinary genius. 

This thread is entitled Modest Dress In Women Detailed - How to Dress, who and where did someone turn it into a sodomite discussion?

Who wants to even hear of such filthiness, let alone see paintings and discussions on it?

"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints" (Eph 5:3)

Thank you!  I was going to write a similar comment.  Any discussion of the pervert topic should be in members only with a note that it’s not suitable for children!

Father Ripperger on Modesty:

https://tinyurl.com/26y66b2a

Click on above links and click on play all to here all about Modesty.  Pray for Father Ripperger.  

A number of Popes have reigned since then (I'm not going to take the time to count), including two Saints (St. Pius V & St. Pius X), and yet none of them have considered the image that you posted offensive, or at least not offensive enough to do any thing about it.

Or they were simply too busy with their other duties for this to make their list of priorities.  Maybe it was #199 on their list of 200 things.  That stuff should be sandblasted right off the ceiling.

That stuff should be sandblasted right off the ceiling.

I honestly never understood why the Sistine Chapel was so highly regarded in the art world. I much prefer other paintings by other artists. The conclusion I came to was that since for so long the art world was full of perverts going back to at least the renaissance, the high esteem the perverted artists gave to the Sistine Chapel was because they were celebrating the entrance of such perversion into the Heart of the Church.

I honestly never understood why the Sistine Chapel was so highly regarded in the art world. I much prefer other paintings by other artists. The conclusion I came to was that since for so long the art world was full of perverts going back to at least the renaissance, the high esteem the perverted artists gave to the Sistine Chapel was because they were celebrating the entrance of such perversion into the Heart of the Church.

Yes.  Well said. 

For some reason I can’t.  It only works if I tinyurl it.