Virtual Sistine Chapel. The ceiling is as beautiful as one

[alfredo]

would expect, but the floor is worth a closer look.

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Use your arrow keys to navigate.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear alfredo...

How beautiful!

SO much to see, too...

Thank you so much for bringing this to us...

[alfredo]

2. I'd love to visit it some day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. You and me both!

[alfredo]

6. Actually this is my favorite

It's a shrine inside a Baobab tree. It's outside Keren Eritrea. http://www.eritrea.be/old/eritrea-keren3.htm
I visited over 40 years ago.

[sakabatou]

3. Oh wow

[femmocrat]

5. Amazing! Thank you! n/t

[mix]

7. i love things like this on teh internets, thanks!! nt

[alfredo]

8. And then there's this:

[mix]

9. the eyes are like blueberries,

the teeth like razors

[alfredo]

10. Blueberries are good antioxidants. Pop one out and taste it.

[mix]

12. naw

i'd rather stick my finger in its maw

[alfredo]

14. What did your finger do to deserve that.

[mix]

21. It wasn't the finger so much as the whole hand.

[alfredo]

22. Co conspirators?

[Orrex]

11. I came into this thread fully prepared to issue some devilishly clever, snarky reply.

But then I clicked on the link.



Wow.

[alfredo]

15. The day is young. Subthreads, snark and disrespect are OK.

[Bucky]

16. Okay, I'll start.

There oughta be a little virtual Michelangelo up there so you can use your pointer to knock him off the scaffolding.

[alfredo]

19. And have him fall like that falling bush page, where he

bounced from ball to ball.

http://www.addictinggames.com/fallingbush.html

[fishwax]

13. that is cool!

Thanks for sharing it. :thumbsup:

[Bucky]

17. Hit the TAB key to get the guide lines for viewing each section.

[alfredo]

20. Thanks.

[Deep13]

18. Cool. Very impressive. nt

[applegrove]

23. Didn't work for me. I couldn't navigate with the arrow keys. So it was

really frustrating cause I couldn't see the actual ceiling paintings.

[alfredo]

25. Click and Drag with your mouse

[Paper Roses]

24. Spectacular. Thanks for posting.

I never tire of the amazing artwork in the churches, castles, chateaux of Europe.
There are no words to adequately describe the talent of Michelangelo.

[UTUSN]

26. Thanks!1 Hope you x-post it where it can be K&R-ed!1

Am sending it in e-mails saying, something to forget the current occupant with.

[alfredo]

27. If you want to post it to GD, please do. My name on the OP

means little to me.

[hedgehog]

28. It's a fantastic piece of art, absolutely a vital piece of Western culture, but

the Sistine Chapel is a terrible place to hold a Mass since the setting overwhelms everything else and would tends to isolate the individual worshippers. In other words, preserve the chapel as a work of art, butdon't take it as any sort of a model for new churches!

[alfredo]

29. It was probably more for the ego of the patron than for worship.

[hedgehog]

30. Ya think?

:hi:

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/185881/1/Pope-Julius-II-Ordering-Bramante,-Michelangelo-And-Raphael-To-Construct-The-Vatican-And-St.-Peters,-1827-2.jpg
Horace Vernet : Pope Julius II ordering Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael to construct the Vatican and St. Peters, 1827




The marble tomb of Pope Julius II



It's too bad the current occupants seem to have the same attitudes!

[alfredo]

31. All that religious stuff is so foreign to me. I appreciate

talent, but hate to see it used in the service of the powerful. But that's the only way many artist could survive.

[hedgehog]

32. As someone who is very familiar with that religious stuff,

while I appreciate the frescoes as an assistance to private meditation, I regret the Sistine Chapel being used as a model for communal prayer spaces. It has led to distortions in the meaning and practice of liturgy.









Boy, when I set my mind to it, i can really sling the shit with the best of them, can't I?
:evilgrin:

[alfredo]

35. And DU is the perfect place to practice the craft.

[Bryn]

33. I noticed there're too many naked little boys around old men on the ceiling

it must have gone on for centuries.

:hide:

[dugaresa]

34. I have actually been there and it is fantastic and almost overwhelming to behold

thank you for posting the link!

[alfredo]

36. Your're welcomed. Ever notice the Delphic Sibyl has six toes?