11 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  2. More a testiment to the power and wealth of the Renaisance Papacy than evidence of piety…..IMHO….

  3. I have been to this chapel – it is very powerful and beautiful. I had to lay down on the floor on my back to look at the murals because my neck got too sore from looking up. Thanks for the tour EBD.
    I do agree with your comment about the Papacy, sasquatch but you must consider the man who painted it – Michaelangelo did not like painting, he was a scuptor and he wanted to do a marble statue of the Madonna and Child; in order to get a commission from the then pope to do the statue he had to agree to paint the chapel. The Pieta was the statue he carved when he finished that chapel. Michalangelo was not a pampered ‘artist’ like Canada’s Swan thingie (Sun News), he worked for a living in the building industry to support his hobby (sculpting). He choose, cut and hauled his own marble and he lost many statues because sometimes the pope who had commissioned him would die and then the next pope would not pay him or buy the other pope’s ‘order’. Michelangelo would then have to abandon his marble and redo or go get a fresh piece and begin again – to satisfy the new pope. Popes were very powerful in those days of Devine Right of Kings (Pope being the person who called the shots for God)
    A Magnificent Man, IMO. ‘A Lust for Living’ by Massie is one of the best biographies I have ever read, certainly the best Michangelo biography.

  4. Fantastic.
    Just be sure to view it at full screen size. (press F11 to do this)
    Then scroll around with the left and right arrow keys, and also the up and down arrow keys. Use the plus and minus keys to zoom in or out.
    Be sure to check out the ceiling.

  5. I was in Rome way back in ’86 when they were still cleaning all the black candle soot etc from the frescos.
    Below is one of my favorite stories re Michelangelo:
    The Last Judgment was an object of a bitter dispute between Cardinal Carafa and Michelangelo. Because he depicted naked figures, the artist was accused of immorality and obscenity. A censorship campaign (known as the “Fig-Leaf Campaign”) was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua’s ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope’s own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said “it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns,”[24] Michelangelo worked da Cesena’s semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain!
    Those damn censors even trying to scupper the Sistine chapel! CALL EZRA LEVANT!!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  7. Yup. Pretty nice.
    Must rank right up there with, oh, let’s say “Voice of Fire’…or that stainless steel bull pecker that was on SDA a few months back.

  8. Three million bucks for three coloured stripes at the National Art Gallery vs. Michaelangelo.
    Today anybody can be an art critic.
    Those Renaissance painters had talent. If they were around today they wouldn’t make it.

  9. One of the most beautiful things man has ever created. I’m lucky enough to have seen it several times over the course of the restoration. Absolutely wonderful.

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