the frescoes in the vaulted ceiling of the sistine chapel and leonardo is mona lisa indisputably the most famous paintings of the renaissance if not the whole of art history. and the interpretation of the creation of adam is the most reproduced work of art in the world portraying a god reaching out from the clouds to form humanity. and a last judgment that depicts the heavenly host as naked as the gods of mount olympus. it was a courageous work of genius made possible only thanks to his papal patron. we wouldn't have st peter's we wouldn't have all this wonderful art in rome we wouldn't have many pieces of music if these renaissance popes hadn't existed at renaissance popes are ambivalent like the whole of. modality they have admirably good traits and they also behave like princes like machiavelli unrestrained and confident and sometimes they put their responsibilities to the church on the back burner or even forgot about them altogether. for this. pope truly is the second or. as the romans called him. the architect at his side was done out of the mantle he was known as maestro robin

to cover the interior of the sistine chapel in fresco. but michelangelo didn't want the job painting wasn't his strength he primarily saw himself as a sculptor he said. but truly is more a warrior than a man of god got his way michelangelo asked for artistic freedom do what you want to yes replied. with five hundred twenty square metres of frescoes to be painted over the head it was a torturous work of epic proportions. the frescoes in the vaulted ceiling of the sistine chapel and leonardo is mona lisa indisputably the most famous paintings of the renaissance if not the whole of art history. and the interpretation of the creation of adam is the most reproduced work of art in the world portraying a god reaching out from the clouds to form humanity. and a last judgment that depicts the heavenly host as naked as the gods of mount olympus. it was a courageous work of genius made possible only thanks to his papal patron. we wouldn't have st peter's we wouldn't have all this wonderful art in rome we wouldn't have many pieces of music if these r

and there is a classically trained artist who painted a live size we creation of the sistine chapel for the motion picture angels and the . and how where these oils may. well they were ground up pigments they could be anything from bones to dry possibly to accost famous ultra and blue that came from afghanistan that was so expensive that it cost more than actual gold in its own weight my god more than gold has it that. the fifteenth century the quatro cento was a an exciting time to be in florence it was a time of rebirth the renaissance the revival of the ancient world and the arts and science and literature and engineering here for example philippo brunelleschi used roman engineering to create this vast dome over the dew moment the cathedral of florence while burlesque he was taking measurements of ancient temples and rome he had discovered that when you draw it as street or a building all the horizontal lines seem to converge to a common center what today we call the vanishing point. the lasky had discovered the laws of linear perspective it revolutionized the renaissance art suddenl

of thorns have a man to jerusalem in recent months and having been to the vatican and to the sistine chapel. i know there are so many artifacts around the world that are important. not just the people who practice catholicism but to all of us, from every walk of life because they symbolize a shared history. i'm wondering now if it is time -- and i want to be delicate with this -- for there to be when the restoration happens, robert, more steel and more concrete. and those things that are present day to protect the artifacts. one thing that impressed me, when you go to the vatican, is that some of that has started to happen. i wonder, does that disturb our faith? does that disturb the journey we are all on to bring it more present-day? >> i'm sort of a traditionalist and architecture. i like the stone. the romans were famous for making arches, and then the gothic cathedrals were famous for their flying buttresses. if you use steel, that's 40 or 60 feet long, you can spread across the roof. but you lose something of the delicate balance of the stones leading up to a keystone, which hold each

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