When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling.
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.
Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
