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Michelangelo – A Different View on Tour
The crowds and neck ache that generally accompany visits to the Sistine Chapel's famous ceiling become a thing of the past when Michelangelo – A Different View comes to town. While Michelangelo painted his High Renaissance masterpiece 72 feet overhead between 1508 and 1512, visitors can now contemplate immaculately detailed reproductions of the world's most famous frescoes at their leisure. The art is mounted on pedestals and, in the case of centerpiece image The Creation of Adam, laid out on the floor. In 2014, the Vatican City licensed high-resolution images of Michelangelo's frescoes to event producer Martin Biallas. The impressively detailed A Different View has been on tour since 2015, when it debuted in Montreal. "Without having seen the Sistine Chapel," wrote Germany's Goethe in 1787, "one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving." Could he have ever imagined that one day the Sistine Chapel would come to us?
About Michelangelo – A Different View
Michelangelo Buonarroti was considered primarily a sculptor when he was commissioned in 1508 to paint over what had been a simple starry sky decorating the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. He would surely have been inspired by the frescoes of Jesus and Moses — painted by Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli — that already adorned the chapel, and these too are on display in A Different View. Michelangelo parlayed his commission by Pope Julius II to paint the 12 apostles into a monumental cavalcade of biblical life, and ended up rendering more than 300 biblical characters in bright colors easily visible from the chapel floor. A gruesome self-portrait on the peeled skin of St. Bartholomew can be seen in The Last Judgment, painted 25 years after the ceiling was completed. The striking images on display in A Different View were photographed during the glorious restoration of the chapel that took place between 1984 and 1994. All roads may lead to Rome, but, in the case of Michelangelo – A Different View, the road leads to you, the viewer.
Worth going to if you’ve never seen Michelangelo. However, the venue lighting was not ideal for portions (smaller, glossy images were obstructed with glare), and the audio visual was problematic & irritating (without earbuds) hearing everyone else’s devices. Glad I went, but it was not as enjoyable an experience as I expected.
Audio version included insight and explanation of each painting and about the artist.
The clear bag issue I was unaware of this policy! Had to walk back to car and will remember this for next outing there. Amen
Underwhelming. They couldn’t get the exhibit unlocked at opening time. Sad conference room setting.
This is not what you're probably expecting it to be. The exhibit is in a smallish room. There are poster-sized pictures on easels along each wall and panels on the floor. Very disappointing!
One word would be awesome, really enjoyed it. On my phone I could listen to each of the paintings, this was great. 🙂🙂
It was one room of replicas and you listened to audio explanations
We had tickets to the show at 10:00 a.m. last Friday. When we arrived, there were hundreds of school students there. It was a mess. There should be a limit on how many people are allowed at any time.
Wonderful to be able to see panels closely. And to hear, in Michaelangelo words, want he was painting! Thank you
We got there right as they opened. And saw the school busses. Two different catholic schools dropping off multiple grades. Now to be clear, the kids didn’t really do anything wrong. They weren’t overly loud or wild, but there were just so many of them. They took up the majority of the room. None of the kids had phones, so they didn’t really understand the pieces they were looking at. So instead, they just chattered at normal levels. But when I was trying to listen to my phone to understand what I was looking at, it was often hard to hear and concentrate. Would have been a better experience if school kids could come when other people are not there. Or block out times when kids will be there so other guests can make informed decisions on when to go.
Terrible..Large foam core posters with bad reproduction photos of Michaelangelo's work.. VERY DISAPPOINTING
It was a bunch of cheap cardboard print outs of the art work plus everyone was playing the audio at different times and it was very annoying. The experience should have videos or audio playing around the showing so you don’t hear the same thing 100 times from everyone’s individual phone. I would definitely not recommend this event.
They only had a few large pieces, the rest were very small. They should tell us in advanced that there was a recording you can download to you phone to listen to the tour. You can hear different people listening to it and they should have been wearing ear pieces. The price was too high for the hour that took me to see everything and they don’t let you take photos because if copyright, oh please I already paid for copyright! They should have the central large pieces hanging from the ceiling to appreciate them better. Not worth the time it took me from Brownsville to McAllen Tx.
We really enjoyed the display. But, upfront there should be notification to bring your phone that can read the QR code and headphones. Not all older folks even know how to use QR. It seemed the displays were out of order. And please make the information numbers on the title signs larger. Thank you!
The exibit was awesome and very interesting. I am sure it took a lot of planning and organizing
Having just come back from Rome the week before exhibit, I was so excited to see the paintings up close. At the Sistine chapel, paintings were far away and overhead, so this made it better. Wish I had seen this before going.
No one at the venue knew where the specific parking that I had to pay for was. I asked four different staff people. I had to park on the street. No one when where the event was located. Had to walk around the entire complex to find it. Staff hosting the event were not there to check our tickets and they could not explain the narration processed worked. Such a waste of money. Horribly run and managed
From the moment I entered I did not feel the experience I was expecting. I did not like the setup, poor quality of images and matching of images. There were on head set so you could listen to the self tour in private. Instead everyone was listening to the self quise tour on their phone.
It was really good to see panels of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel up close. There were brief audio descriptions though I have more questions and there was no one available who knew more about the exhibit. The audio for the side panels was one longer audio file but it was hard to track as the descriptors are placed low. The cap and prophets lined the room with the center panels of the ceiling on the floor. While the floor (Sistine’s ceiling) was in the order as seen, the cap and prophets were randomly placed, so it will be harder to remember which ones followed in the actual chapel. Maybe the curator will fix that in the coming days. Overall, if you have interest in seeing Michelangelo’s work, this is as close to home and close to original as it gets. Don’t buy the optional Park Whiz, it was an utter waste of money.
Went in at 1 pm on Friday. Some of the displays were not sync with the audio. You had to be going back and forth. There was no gift shop as it indicated on the web site. Over all 2 thumbs up.
