Quote by 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

“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

“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

“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

“In 1510 the pope ordered the scaffolding dismantled and the first part of the fresco displayed to an eager public. The ecstatic reactions from…

— 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

“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

“If Michelangelo had seen this in daylight with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen on his knees and painted…

— Susan Ee

“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

“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

“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

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

— Robert Hughes