Artist Quote by Benjamin Blech

“It is likely that this very maelstrom of conflicted impulses is what has foiled all previous attempts to come up with a “unified theory”…

— Benjamin Blech

“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

“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

“The goal was to teach and spiritually transform its viewers. But in what way? We have already unveiled many of the artist’s secret messages…

— Benjamin Blech

“that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation…

— William Edgar

“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

“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

“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

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

— 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

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

— David Bailey