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Prilično sam sigurna da se na odeljenjima za istoriju umetnosti širom sveta ne izučavaju rimski renesansni bordeli. Ali, ako želite da budete dobar poznavalac Mikelanđela, na primer, morali biste znati ponešto i o tome. Tako barem smatra Elena Lacarini, italijanska istoričarka umetnosti, koja je iznela jedno škakljivo zapažanje u svojoj studiji. Ona smatra kako je za likove naslikane u Sikstinskoj kapeli Mikelanđelo modele potražio u rimskim javnim kućama, i to onim koje su opsluživale i homoseksualce, a u koje je umetnik često zalazio. U pitanju su nekakve banje, nalik današnjim tajlandskim salonima za "masažu", ako sam dobro razumela.
Nije problematična ta teza kako život ne prestaje tamo gde počinje umetnost, ali ne treba ni preterivati sa zaključcima. Šta ćemo sa praksom idealizacije lika, konceptom ideje, antičkim uzorima? To sve verovatno dosadno zvuči u odnosu na scene uzbudljivog tajnog života renesansnih salona za masažu. Pa još ovekovečenih u Vatikanu! 
Citat:But a new study claims that the huge painting is also based on the seedy scenes the 16th-century artist witnessed at Roman public baths which doubled as brothels for male and female prostitutes.
"The figures descending to hell and ascending to heaven are inspired by the virile, muscular manual workers and porters Michelangelo would have seen during his visits to the baths, which are well documented," said Elena Lazzarini, a researcher at the University of Pisa and the author of the study. "It was here he defined the build of the working man as the ideal physique."
The public baths which proliferated in Rome at the time offered steam rooms, massages and basic medical treatments with leeches, "but also rooms offering scenes of promiscuity and prostitution, both male and female", she said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/12/michel.....hel-scenes
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