Last time Quote by Benjamin Blech

“The Florentine public didn’t care. When the full-sized preparatory cartoons were displayed, the entire city went into ecstasy over both works. This was the…

— Benjamin Blech

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

— Benjamin Blech

“Michelangelo then summarily fired his Roman staff of assistants. He next sent for five longtime friends, all artists with experience in fresco work, to…

— Benjamin Blech

“Let’s start with Michelangelo’s predecessors. What did they want the chapel to say, and what relevance, if any, do these ideas still have today?”

— Benjamin Blech

“Even at this ridiculous hour, and clad in a faded blue t-shirt and ancient pyjama pants, he looked like something Michelangelo might reject for…

— Tabitha McGowan

“The ambitious pope had already discussed the Sistine ceiling with Michelangelo in 1506, probably while they were together in Bologna. No doubt Julius, an…

— Benjamin Blech

“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold acquisition of…

— Michael Ennis

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

— Benjamin Blech

“In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb.…

— Benjamin Blech

“Faced with the enormous insult of his burial in Rome, the citizens of Florence finally realized their cultural and spiritual debt to Buonarroti. They…

— Benjamin Blech

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

— Benjamin Blech

“Yet, to view the Sistine primarily as a self-portrait doesn’t ring totally true. In spite of his arrogance regarding his artistic skill, Michelangelo was…

— Benjamin Blech