with Corrado Augias
and Giovanni C.F. Villa
The Sistine Chapel is not only the greatest work of art ever performed at that level, it is also an extraordinary container of stories, of religious, historical and political interpretations.
The nearly thirty years that separate the frescoes in the Vault, from those on the wall of The Last Judgment, mark two moments in Michelangelo’s biography, but also two very different political phases marked by the beginning of the Council of Trent (Paul III - 1545) with everything that the event meant for the history of Catholicism and Italy.
Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564; 450 years later, this event aims at telling the story that accompanied that enormous feat, especially reveal the infinite micro-stories that the frescoes hide and that can be identified only with an expert reading.
That’s exactly what the writer Corrado Augias and art historian Giovanni C.F. Villa will do: show the spectators the treasures contained in that extraordinary environment using a large-screen projection of the most fascinating details.
For some, it will be like really seeing the work - for the first time.
