Quote by Benjamin Blech

“Giudizio Universale, the Last Judgment. In the Christian tradition, this is when Jesus returns to earth to discern between right and wrong, good and…

— Benjamin Blech

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

— 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

“In most Christian imagery of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the suffering, damned Jews were portrayed as unsympathetic caricatures. This was an extremely important…

— Benjamin Blech

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

“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

“Michelangelo knew that for the Church to fulfill the will of God, it had to become a paradigm of true brotherhood. There had to…

— Benjamin Blech

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

— Benjamin Blech

“You can readily see the contrast in style between Michelangelo’s statues of David and also of St. Matthew.”

— Hourly History

“Michelangelo’s mistakes, frozen within testimony of concrete—what they suggest is that mistakes are, first and foremost, a by-product of the pursuit of excellence.”

— James L. Harmon

“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”

— Peter Rollins

“What, then, is the unifying theme, if any, of these four different corner panels that might account for their selection by Michelangelo? The obvious…

— Benjamin Blech