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#1: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Nov 1, 2013

4 years....how bad of a crick in his neck do you think that guy had?!

Michelangelo worked there not with ledder but staging, of course :)

I didn't know they had baseball caps back then.:) Nice puzzle.

yeah...I watched something on tv about the painting of the sistine chapel not too long ago...scaffolding(or staging) is right...the cool part about it was how the paintings seem to jut outwards even though the ceiling slopes away. the gist of the show was how he could paint so well on a crooked backdrop(esp since at the time he was known as a sculptor, not a painter) and get done so relatively fast. when they renovated(which took something like 16 years while the original work was done in 4), they found etchings carved into the ceiling. He knifed it into the roof then traced with paint, basically.

Very nice and thanks for the info

excellent image - love the painter's cap and paint brush. I knew exactly what it was by the date and as I was completing the stained glass window. keep 'em coming!

Again thx for the info Travis,cool image.:)

501 years ago! what an amazement that we are still enjoying this man's genius. and that he was in Italy rather than somewhere it would have been torn down to put up a parking lot. super puzzle! thanks!

Haha annalivia! And...his back had never been the same.

thanks all for your comments :)

That was the most amazing part of the Sistine Chapel to me: all of the sculptural elements (reclining figures and such) between the large paintings looked like they were carved, not painted.

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