Artist Quote by 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

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

— Miles J. Unger

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.”

— Miles J. Unger

“So what was Michelangelo’s real message? “SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”? A more profound and legitimate explanation of the Sistine is that perhaps it is…

— 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

“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

“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