A monumental book reveals a monumental work of art
Photograph © Vatican Museum On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid Michelangelo’s famous frescoes—God’s fingertip reaching out toward Adam’s, the sun and planets coming into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden—is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions depicting scenes from the Old Testament. Relatively monochromatic and overwhelmed by the bright figures that surround them, these smaller paintings are easy to miss, especially for tourists looking up from the floor roughly four stories below, crowded shoulder to shoulder and shuffled steadily toward the exit ...
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