Sistine Chapel

[depechemodevilla]

"Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" BWV 2 the first coro always sounds good as a soundtrack to this.

[Sav24Star]

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is unquestionably one of the most timeless pieces of art in human history. Even if you're not religious, you can't help but be overwhelmed by this monumental display of talent, passion and dedication.

[celinarostras]

PARECE ATÉ A REVISTA PLAY BOY...TANTO HOMEM PELADÃO, OS HOMENS DA BIBLIA VIVIA BEM VESTIDO...ESSA PINTURA ME PARECEU UMA PINTURA MUITO FULGAR, PARA ESTÁ DENTRO DE UMA IGREJA, ME PARECE UM PINTURA PARA GAY...MUITO HOMEM PELADO!!!!

[watergrass5150]

all whites and what will happen to the browns, the indians, the chinese, and the negro people? Just a question.

[FelG1022]

This painting was made from centuries ago. Made while in Europe there were (almost) only whites people. That seems logical nevertheless, but apparently not for you... A painting made by the Native Americans on their religion is going to be represented by Native Americans.Tomorrow, when we shall find extraterrestrials, they are also going to complain when they go to see a painting, on some religious base, when there are only represented human beings and no extraterrestrials?

Called art, true art.

[47quintos49]

how did you video this when they said it's prohibited?

[CaptainBazooka]

isnt it illegle to film in there

[ReddFlashTV]

I'm guessing I'm the only 12-yr-old kid watching this?I'm learning about Michelangelo in school right now.

[durtrummer]

im 12.. my dream is to paint a painting of the Sistine Chapel

[warhero1645]

@ReddFlashTV I'm 14, if that helps.

[FireVortex720]

@ReddFlashTV 13 yr old. went here. just wanna knw more about the paintings

[aktualize]

Not sexuality. I'm using the "happiness/joy" version of the word (you know, the -original- version, if that's still okay to use). The coloring of the Sistine Ceiling was never that ridiculously saccharine; it used to be solemn and intelligently expressive, very much in tune with the greatest High Renaissance works.

Sorry to ruffle your feathers. However, if that single word is causing you problems, maybe you should have a beer and relax. Or you could just not be hostile, either way works.

[aktualize]

(Sorry, we were talking about the Last Judgement shown here, not the Sistine ceiling. But, I would think that the brutal subject matter of the Last Judgement would make it even more obvious that the coloring is wrong, even moreso than the ceiling frescoes.)

[aggintad]

why do people call it the 16th chapel?

[legalrule]

I believe it was named after Pope the sixth.

[sass104505]

Because the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of his private chapel (now the Sistine Chapel) was Sixtus V. He couldn't afford to pay Michelangelo's fee and had to impose a new tax on the Romans. Nothing new in my country.

Greeting from Italy

[aktualize]

Let me educate you all.

1) This is the Last Judgement painted on the far wall of the Sistine interior, -NOT- the ceiling.

2) Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling, not Sixtus V.

3) The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV.

4) This video is taken after the destructive "restoration" of the Last Judgement a decade ago. It didn't originally look so flamboyantly gay.

There, education complete.

[jeffreyjennings]

Are you insinuating that those who restored this were attempting to promote a gay agenda.....?

Further...what are your thoughts on Michaels sexuality? And yours? You seem a bit bitter about the gayity of it all.

I have been looking at these pictures for 50 years and you are the first person I have ever read use the word gay to describe this painting.

I have been here and stood for hours on end although I am from the US. Has just always fascinated me...I never saw gay in this.

[anglicansag]

Jeffrey, I believe aktualize meant "gay" in its definitive meaning, i.e. "festive" "joyful". Not in its current idiomatic ( and sometimes, pejorative connotation ) of homosexual.

[anglicansag]

aktualize,

I'm glad to see someone has corrected the egregious blunders this video presents. You save me the trouble. However, respectfully, I disagree with your last point. I've ALWAYS disagreed with the naysayers who contend the restoration stripped away Michelangelo -- intended sfumato.

One need only look at his Donni Tondo to see that Michelangelo was an exuberant colorist.

[aktualize]

Perhaps, but coloring aside, I have two words for you: fresco secco.

He executed the Sistine in buon fresco and fresco secco. The "restoration" wholly obliterated any fresco secco. Maybe his colors tended towards exuberance. The point is that the first layer that an artist puts down isn't necessarily the end of the process. He applied buon fresco, stepped back and looked up at his work, then added fresco secco as another layer to the work.

It is outright vandalism what they did to the Sistine.

[rohirrim11rider]

@aktualize Destructive? You call layers of glue, varnish, and animal fat accumulated with layers of soot and dust nondestructive? That is NOT what Michelangelo intended the ceiling to look like. Those layers of crap were added long after he painted the ceiling and the Last Judgment.

[olewnikb2]

@aktualize were you always so flamboyantly gay?

[DrewAnti1960]

this is 25 years after the Ceiling painting of the creation of man,

[DrewAnti1960]

The Last judgement,thats the name of the painting

[intothenightfall]

i actually think my history teacher said he was an architect, but the pope asked HIM to paint, and you can't say no to the pope because he would kill him, but i do remember he said something, and the pope threatened to throw him off the scaffolding.

[Antillektuell]

theres a great book about michelangelo.

the book is called michelangelo by irving stone!

it says that all he wanted was making sculptures! but the pope forced him to paint the chapel.

[intothenightfall]

i might have to go out and rent this book, i might enjoy it. sounds decent

not something a 15 year old would enjoy though, ya know?

[Antillektuell]

you can enjoy it as a 15 year old!! its just written in an "non comic" way ;) but its really interesting for people of every age!

[ModernMaverick]

It is a great book! I think it's called the Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). An open-minded fifteen-year-old person would definitely enjoy it! It's not about age, but disposition, so to say. It depends what you're interested in knowing, thinking, or not.

[Antillektuell]

yup youre right!!! "the Agony and the Ecstasy " by irving stone!!! good book if you want to know moe about michelangelo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GenericGene]

La Bella -

[AnotherGoddess]

This is lovely, but it's not the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It's one of the walls. The Altar Wall. This is the Last Judgement, not the ceiling.

[12ut5]

I love "The Last Judgement" so it was just fine that that's all that was shown, here, and shown very well!

[followerofINRI]

Thats kind of ironic that you love the last judgement. don't take me wrong im not being mean. all im saying is thats' interesting.

[12ut5]

follwerofINRI, Never thought of it that way. Guess it's like saying, in a way, that you love the Apocalypse. I see the irony in that. Of course, The Last Judgement I was referring to, here, was Michelangelo's work of art.

[DraculaVision]

Very good images.

However this is not the ceiling of the chapel, it is the Last Judgement on the end wall. Michelangelo painted it many, many years after painting the ceiling.

Good video though.

[RedBlueKing79]

Complimenti! Spettacolare

[bacabaca420]

Gracie