Michelangelo's Vatican Frescoes: A Photography Exhibition by Choi Okamura

An art book featuring Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
- Cover design: Design of Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
- Photography: Choi Okamura
- Supervision and commentary: Shuji Takashina
- Editing and publishing: Seibu Museum, Nihon Keizai Shimbun
- Editorial cooperation and production: Kodansha

[Michelangelo's Vatican Frescoes: Choi Okamura Photography Exhibition]
Dates: 3/20/1981 - 4/8/1981
Venue: ams Hall
¥1,710. Media reuse. Photography by Choi Okamura; Organized by Seibu Museum, Nihon Keizai Shimbun
[Mr. Takashi Okamura (Okamura Takashi = photographer) died of lung cancer at the age of 86]
He documented the restoration work of Michelangelo's frescoes, such as "The Creation of Adam," in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City and received high praise.
From the Nihon Keizai Shimbun website

[Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Italian: Volta della Cappella Sistina)] is a painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, built within the Vatican Palace in Vatican City. This ceiling painting, one of the representative works of the High Renaissance, was created between 1508 and 1512. The magnificent Sistine Chapel, where the ceiling painting is located, was built within the Vatican Palace by Pope Sixtus IV between 1477 and 1480.
The Creation of Adam section. The image of God's hand giving life to Adam.
[List of architectural motifs]
This ceiling painting, which includes various themes, is part of the overall decorative plan of the Sistine Chapel, along with the huge fresco of "The Last Judgment" on the altar wall (also by Michelangelo), fresco murals created by other painters, and a group of tapestries based on Raphael's original drawings. These collectively depict the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
The central decoration of the ceiling is the nine scenes based on the Book of Genesis, of which "The Creation of Adam" is particularly famous. The scene where God's finger and Adam's finger are about to touch is a well-known image, along with Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
From Wikipedia

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