In 1508 Michaelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the sistine chapel in Rome. Over the next four years he lay on his back atop a scaffold painting a truly huge image of God, saints and biblical scenes. At over five thousand square feet the painting is so vast that it can’t be viewed as a whole or photographed with a single shot. Michaelangelo had a grand idea of who God was and yet in all it’s grandeur we know that it can never represent the vastness of God; he painted a great big God and in doing so painted a...
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