Benjamin Blech

“Very often, the title given to an artwork is the key to unlocking its hidden meanings. For”

— Benjamin Blech

“What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.”

— Benjamin Blech

“With his genius, Michelangelo built many bridges of the spirit.”

— Benjamin Blech

“The women, too, exhibit a high level of grace, intelligence, strength, and beauty.”

— Benjamin Blech

“To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world…

— Benjamin Blech

“Historians are fairly certain that Buonarroti spent much time in the Jewish parts of Rome, using the authentic features of real Jews…

— Benjamin Blech

Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except…

— Benjamin Blech

“The Jew cannot accept the New Testament since it is the words of one man intended to undo what the Creator had…

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he…

— Benjamin Blech

“people would flock to the churches to mingle, to hear a sermon from a talented popular orator, and to enjoy the latest…

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“the Jewish high priests but to the custodians of any monotheistic faith, popes included, to maintain the purity of belief and of…

— Benjamin Blech

“Somewhat similar is another effect called anamorphosis. This is an amazing technique that makes an image literally “morph” into another shape or…

— Benjamin Blech

“This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in…

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“To assess the success of the Sistine, we must think in terms of its history, its prime architects, and its contemporary relevance.…

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“There was even a third person to deal with, as far as anything that took place in the Sistine Chapel. He was…

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“Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the…

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“Jeremiah was the godly messenger who warned the corrupt priests of the Holy Temple that their bronze and gold would be taken…

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“But last and least known is its additional purpose as a Kabbalistic meditational device that thus, in one more way, links it…

— Benjamin Blech

“In a world without cable channels and satellite television, videos and DVDs, movies and the Internet, an artist’s creation was the one…

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“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft.…

— Benjamin Blech

“the original commission for the ceiling was a plan designed by the pope and his closest advisers. Jesus was to have been…

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“Vatika has several other related meanings in ancient Etruscan. It was the name of a bitter grape that grew wild on the…

— Benjamin Blech

“What is this plan, then? What does the great ceiling really mean? To understand it fully, we have to experience it the…

— Benjamin Blech

“The Hebrew Bible, speaking of the first sexual encounter between Adam and Eve, says that “Adam knew” his mate. Remarkably, the Hebrew…

— Benjamin Blech

“Carafa, as Pope Paul IV, established the Index of Forbidden Books, banned all women from entering the Vatican, burnt volumes of Talmud…

— Benjamin Blech

“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says:…

— Benjamin Blech

“Yet another strategy for encoding in Renaissance works involved environmental “special effects.” Messages were ingeniously inserted so that they could be viewed…

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“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •​It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would…

— Benjamin Blech

“Until the Tower of Babel, humans had only planted and sown, reaped and harvested. Farmers are dependent upon nature and, in their…

— Benjamin Blech

“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions…

— Benjamin Blech

“Over the front altar wall, we see the spandrel of Esther and Haman. This story is found in both Hebrew and Christian…

— Benjamin Blech

“Why one of the later, lesser-known Jewish prophets over the front door of the Sistine? Michelangelo must have selected Zechariah for a…

— Benjamin Blech

“The Hebrew Bible, speaking of the first sexual encounter between Adam and Eve, says that “Adam knew” his mate. Remarkably, the Hebrew…

— Benjamin Blech

“SUCCESS, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID, means different things to different people. Measured by the throngs of visitors who are moved to…

— Benjamin Blech

“Vatika has several other related meanings in ancient Etruscan. It was the name of a bitter grape that grew wild on the…

— Benjamin Blech

“They balance the Sistine Temple between the column of G’vurah (strength and justice) on the left side and the column of Chessed…

— Benjamin Blech

“Almost exactly five hundred years ago, a tormented soul named Michelangelo built a very narrow bridge in the middle of the air…

— Benjamin Blech

“Back in the 1540s, Pope Paul III had started the repressive measures of the Counter-Reformation to crack down on the growth of…

— Benjamin Blech

“Good" and "bad" describe the subjective feelings we have toward semothing; the words "true" or "false" deal with reality, regardless of our…

— Benjamin Blech