History Quote by 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

“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

“He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment “suitable” for the papal chapel. Michelangelo hotly…

— Benjamin Blech

“Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much…

— 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

“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

Working with photographer Mario Testino on Bulgari's 2017 global campaign in Italy was an incredible moment for me. I could see the Vatican from…

— Lily Aldridge

“Their Jewishness is visible in their physical appearance, and one notices their Jewish heritage in their intellectual work.”

— Alexander Kennedy

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

“References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual”

— Dan Brown

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in…

— Adolf Hitler