Look more carefully at the image of God reaching out to Man. God is nearly falling out of his cloud trying to make contact. His angels are holding him back. Man is so laid back that he can't even extend his finger. This is Michelangelo's caustic, cynical comment on the human race. Once one sees this image in this manner, there is no turning back.
True, Disney was a genius. But once I got to that quote about Disney he lost me. Not interested.
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Congratulations to Ms. Jatta. I have heard of an artist who wants to sleep overnight in the Sistine Chapel. I hope they do it. Sounds beautiful!
The Cappella Sistina is one of the most important places in the world. Nobody can deny that.
Thanks to the inspiration of Michelangelo and the faith which was the based on this masterpiece.
If that can inspire our people to create a show describing the beauty of such opera is more than welcome.
Needless to say, the original is still beyond any show.
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This report could have been hilarious as a parody in, say, the National Lampoon, 40 years ago. But now that it's true, it's just depressing. Today everything has to justify its existence by providing a cash flow, and has to be dumbed down to do so...
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This is a trend in European religious architecture. Here is some of the most beautiful art and architecture ever created. The buildings were once pilgrimage-worthy and were the center of a form of life. An art that recognized something greater than the human or the realm of beings themselves.Things change. When we last visited Strasbourg, our evening in the Rue Merciere included a light show on the facade of the cathedral. It was cool. Lots of people were out, milling about, eating and drinking outside, oohing and aahing at the light show. Summer spectacle! Circuses! Show time! I enjoyed it, too.
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Yes. That's exactly what the Vatican needs..... more drama.
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Each year Laguna Beach has it 's Pageant of the Masters where actors
"recreate" paintings. If you love original artworks and the attention and
rewards they offer then the Pageant is just awful. If you love entertainment
then it's a lot of fun. I suspect it will be the same in Rome.
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Give me the real thing, any day. Unadulterated. In the natural light the artist saw it in.
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Beautiful art...sell one and feed the world. I never understood the constant asking of contributions when I attended church in my childhood (buy a holy card and someone you know get's out of purgatory--scott free apparently).
International Business News :So exactly how much is the Vatican worth? It's hard to say. The Catholic Church has a history of opacity about its finances, something Pell says is slowly changing.
Cardinal George Pell (Reuters)
And much of its assets are near impossible to value because they will never be sold off, such as its gold-laden palatial church property and priceless works of art by the likes of Michelangelo and Raphael.
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Could you sell your neighbor's house or car? Of course not; you don't hold the title to these things. When the Lateran Concordat of 1929 created Vatican City as the smallest independent nation-state in the world, it made the Vatican the custodian of the property and art treasures, considered as the patrimony of all of Europe. So the answer to the question, Why doesn't the Vatican sell its treasures? is, it can't. The Vatican does not own them.
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Mr. Balich said. “When they say ‘Oh but we don’t want to make a Disney kind of thing,’ I say, ‘But Disney was a genius — what’s wrong with that?’”
...Maybe because you are not Disney
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Everyone can be bought.
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Garbage garbage that ruins the real experience of great art
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In the last five yrs. I visited Rome and Paris and saw the great sites, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Louvre, Rodin Museum, Orangerie, The Col., St Peters, Pantheon etc.
All of them were user friendly. Yes there were some with restrictions like no flash bulbs but all went out of their way to enhance the experience.
The only exception was the Vatican Museum in particular Michaelangelos's masterpiece Sistine Chapel and Raphael masterpiece The School of Athens.
Raphael painting was in a room as small as a large bathroom with almost no light. Forget about a picture, viewing it was hard enough.
The Sistine Chapel was large but freezing, almost pitch black with security guards telling you to hush every two minutes. Even without a flash you could not take a picture.
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In answer to Paul, I've spent months in Rome and have been to the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel almost a dozen times. The room with the School of Athens is not small "as a large bathroom" but of more than sufficient size, with ample light. The Chapel always was well-lit and never freezing (and I was there in Winter). Visiting is a wonderful experience. Anyone who has the opportunity to do so will be delighted.
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Why would you need to take a photo of these works when high quality images are available on the internet? The Sistine Chapel is always packed with people. It would be senseless to heat it. In addition, didn’t you have your outerwear on? Were you cold at the Colosseum as well? Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. Sounds like you are just anti-Vatican.
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Thank you for your reply Thomas. St Peters was wonderful. It was user friendly. The Pope was friendly (he was there when I was there). The bait and switch tactic by you on me did not work. The Vatican Museum, specifically the Sistine Chapel and The School of Athens Room were not.
As mentioned, I saw all the great sights in Rome and Paris and those two stood out as very un user friendly.
The crowd at the Mona Lisa was space for space much greater than the Sistine Chapel and The Lourve did a fabulous job of handling everybody and allowing non flash pics.
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Oh, how i would love to go, but i am old and in a wheel chair. Will this production be put on a video and the video on the Internet so the entire world can see it?
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I can't imagine that it won't be. It would be wonderful free advertising for what the investors hope will become a permanent tourist fixture there, so take heart!
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