Up close and personal.
Another way you know you aren't in Rome: You can view these large reproductions of Michelangelo's frescoes at eye level, seeing details that you won't catch in the tilted mirrors framing the floor of the real Sistine Chapel, positioned so that visitors don't have to crane their necks for long periods.
While he couldn't really paint the female form, though, Michelangelo definitely understood the mentality of some women. In"The Creation of Eve," Adam is peacefully passed out naked in the grass, while Eve seems to be pleading and agonizing over something —"Why couldn't you have made it bigger?" — with God, who is giving her a stern look and making a gesture that often accompanies the phrase"You get what you get, and you don't get upset.
Even so, Michelangelo went above and beyond: Although the pope originally requested he just paint the twelve apostles, Michelangelo ended up creating the entire genealogy of Catholicism, with more than 300 figures represented on more than 5,300 square feet.
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