If you are at all interested in art this book is a must read. What Michelangelo did in the Sistine Chapel is really a miracle of creativity. He wasn't a painter, he was a sculptor. He had almost no prior experience with the fresco process and yet still was able to cover the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with not only an aesthetically pleasing piece of art but a groundbreaking revolutionary piece of magnificence. Michelangelo who was already known for his raw and powerful portrayal of the human body in sculpture was able to take the brute force and pure strength of his sculptures and recreated it in fresco. By painting the Sistine Chapel he forced a whole new paradigm in art the likes of which had not been seen for thousands of years, not since the ancients. In trying to find a modern day equivalent I am left at a loss, what Mike did is simply unparalleled.
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