Yahoo: Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with
MSN: Michelangelo never wanted to paint ‘stupid’ Sistine Chapel, top historian claims
Michelangelo never wanted to paint the ‘stupid’ Sistine Chapel, a historian has claimed. The Italian artist - who lived a ‘long and miserable’ life - actually ‘loathed’ painting and wanted to sculpt ...
Artnet: Art Bites: Michelangelo’s Poem About How Much It Sucked to Paint the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo may have immortalized himself by painting the ceiling (and altar wall) of the Sistine Chapel, but he broke his back doing so. And boy, did he moan about it. In the Renaissance equivalent ...
Art Bites: Michelangelo’s Poem About How Much It Sucked to Paint the Sistine Chapel
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting ...
Yahoo! Sports: The Agony and the Ecstasy: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500
Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...
NBC Connecticut: A look at the history of the Sistine Chapel, the site of the papal conclave
As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...