Jan 28, 2016
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by Zoe Romanowsky
You may have had the good fortune of gazing at the Sistine Chapel, but there's probably a lot you still don't know about it. Look no further than art historian Elizabeth Liv's "tour-de-force talk" given at TEDGlobal in Geneva.
Lev is a dynamic guide, revealing what Michelangelo was up to when he set out to work with a skeleton crew to create the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in just three and a half years. Lev describes how the artist "reached beyond the religious iconography of the time to chart new artistic waters," and how, 500 years later, its beauty still speaks to us through time and geographic space.
Source: http://aleteia.org/
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