Get Ready for Rome
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Get Ready for Rome helps the thoughtful traveler prepare to visit the Eternal City by introducing the city's main monuments and the sometimes acrimonious dialogue they imply. Add value to your visit to Rome by getting to know in advance the ideas and history that stand behind St. Peters Basilica, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel, and other familiar but put poorly understood sites of one..
Get Ready for Rome
2M ago
Popes have frequently attacked the moral, political, and intellectual developments that gave birth to modern Italy. On the occasion of the death of Pope Benedict, we today review his controversial Regensburg Address to see what it says about modern Rome ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
2M ago
We return today to the "secular" or non-religious character of modern Rome in order to see more clearly how much the Rome of the People has changed from the Rome of the Popes ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
3M ago
Today we introduce Michelangelo's "Last Judgment," his vast fresco painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
4M ago
The four Pendentives of Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel represent four different dramatic stories from the Old Testament. What are these stories, and what do they teach ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
4M ago
We know that Michelangelo's painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was an extraordinary achievement, but what subjects does he represent and what teaching do they convey ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
4M ago
Michelangelo used painted architecture and numerous nudes to divide the Sistine Chapel ceiling into separate panels and give it a complex design. Today we summarize the elaborate arrangement he came up with ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
5M ago
Michelangelo dominates the Sistine Chapel, but the chapel's walls feature twelve frescoes by the previous generation of great Florentine artists. We look at two by Botticelli as an introduction to all twelve ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
5M ago
We return for a second introduction to the Sistine Chapel and outline some of the main challenges Michelangelo had to overcome in painting the ceiling ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
8M ago
This episode introduces the twelve frescoes on the side walls of the Sistine Chapel, which invite a comparison between the lives and laws of Moses and Jesus ..read more
Get Ready for Rome
9M ago
We today make a first visit to the Sistine Chapel and look generally at the three different waves of Renaissance frescoes that decorated it. Two of these are by Michelangelo ..read more