Sistine Chapel
Destination: Rome, Italy Book: The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A. Connor (NEW Paperback Edition August, 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan) Like Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, this book concentrates on one major work of the maestro. Unlike King’s book, The Last Judgment by James A. (Jim) [...]
Destination: Rome Movie: Angels and Demons Well, here we are at the end of Italy week. I went to the long-awaited movie of around noon today. I would say it was the equivalent of dining on one of those fancy bakery cakes decorated with lard and sugar icing and fresh violets. Absolutely beautiful, but [...]
Destination: Rome Book: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome by Angela K. Nickerson Number one on my Italian travel agenda: Rome. Number one in Rome: The Sistine Chapel. After a lifetime of seeing pictures of those outstretched index fingers, I wanted to see the rest. Not a [...]
