Michelangelo comes to Fremantle, Part II
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (323673)
Rockingham, Australia
May 11, 2022 5:36am CST
I wrote that we visited ‘Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition’ this morning. You can catch up here: https://www.mylot.com/post/3508554/michelangelo-comes-to-fremantle-western-australia
The informative signage and audio guides allowed viewers to gain much more from the experience. The characters in the paintings were fully identified as were any activities on which they were embarked. I found this really helpful in interpreting the various frescoes. It was interesting that Michelangelo depicted some of his doomed characters (those descending into hell, for instance) with the features of his critics.
Our tickets allowed us entry at 10 am and it was around 11.30 am before we left. It was a much more decorous crowd than what we experienced in Rome and we were encouraged to take as many photos as we wanted.
After leaving the exhibition, we caught up with an old friend and enjoyed lunch in the old port city of Fremantle. It was a very relaxing day.
The photo was taken by Vince and is a panoramic view of some of the frescoes on exhibition.
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
11 May 22
I've also seen the original paintings in Rome. When you look at them for some time, your neck hurts! This does not happen in the exhibition you visited.
Poor Michaelangelo, his arm must have hurt awfully when he was lying on his back and painted the ceiling above his head.
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@sharonelton (24349)
• Lichfield, England
11 May 22
Wow! It sounds like you had an amazing time.
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@sharonelton (24349)
• Lichfield, England
12 May 22
@JudyEv Yes! It's amazing! I really don't know how he did it!
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@RebeccasFarm (84397)
• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
11 May 22
@JudyEv Oh indeed a master
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@FourWalls (61319)
• United States
11 May 22
That’s one way of getting back at your critics. I suppose saying “go to hell” wouldn’t have been accepted, so he painted them there!
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@FourWalls (61319)
• United States
12 May 22
@JudyEv — ooh, that’s mean. Think Michelangelo had a beef with him?
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 May 22
@FourWalls Yes, the guy was very critical of Michelangelo's work.
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@snowy22315 (168423)
• United States
11 May 22
That must have been really fun. I would have enjoyed it for sure.
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@xFiacre (12536)
• Ireland
11 May 22
@judyev I do find indecorous crowds somewhat tiresome. There is a Church we worship at when in county Sligo, the one beside which a body said to be that of Yeats is buried. During the service insensate tourists feel quite free to wander about snapping merrily and loudly in spite on notices while the minister is in full flow.
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