Sistine Chapel unveiled

[Devil Doc]

Today is All Saints Day, and Pope Julius II chose this day in 1512 to display Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the first time. Michelangelo didn't want to take on the job. He tried to explain that he was a sculptor not a painter. But the Pope wouldn't take no for an answer. And so Michelangelo had to take on one of the most difficult fresco paintings in history. To paint a fresco, you have to apply wet plaster to a wall and then paint over the plaster before it dries. Michelangelo had to do all this on a 10,000-square-foot ceiling 60 feet above the ground. Study of the ceiling has shown that while Michelangelo started out by making sketches for his paintings, he may have been in a rush to finish, because he wound up painting a lot of the ceiling freehand.


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[Brickhouse]

It really is an impressive thing to look up at. One of my fondest memories of visiting Italy.

 

[golfgar]

Thanks, that was one incredible job. 500 years later it is still a marvel.

 

[AVB]

Still one of the most impressive artworks of modern man.

 

[Maggs44]

Carlson: Iowa's very own Sistine Chapel By JOHN CARLSON
September 10, 2006

Waterloo, Ia. — The cars slow to a crawl when they ease past the storefront in downtown Waterloo. Heads turn sideways, drivers and passengers gawk , trying to get a glimpse of the mysterious scene inside.

They don’t dare stop and enter 622 Commercial St. Not with the sign on the door that says, “Please Don’t Disturb the Artist.”

So the curious will have to wait — not all that much longer — to see this remarkable thing up close.

“I wanted to do something absolutely unique and interesting,” said Paco Rosic, 27, the artist who yearns to work in privacy. “I think I’ve done that.”

There’s not much doubt. After all, try to name anybody else, anywhere, who has re-created Michelangelo’s ultimate work — the Sistine Chapel ceiling — using 12-ounce cans of spray paint.

We’re talking the whole ceiling: The creation of Adam. The great flood. God separating light from darkness. David and Goliath. All of it. Three hundred sequences.

The rest of the story and a small pic can be found at:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs...ID=200660909015