Welcome to the 21st century sistine chapel blog. We are a group of students, that as a project, are in charge of creating and painting a new version of the sistine chapel located at the Vatican. The purpose of the project is to imitate the whole process that a renaissance artist had to go through to complete his art work. This includes finding a sponsor, getting financed, create expectation, and finally unveil the art work to the public. The themes that will be included in this new version of the ceiling are ones not included in the original painting, and would be painted like if a famous renaissance artist did it. Throught this blog, we will keep you updated with the progress of the project and give you some history and facts of Miccelangelos painting. Stay tuned

Day1: 
We organize ourselves and research information about the sixtine chapel and place a budget of $50. The fundraisers start doing a presentation of some kind to appeal a potential fundraiser, while the rest of the group, as a whole, is deciding which topics to include in our ceiling and how to draw them.

Ideas we thought:
Las novenas
12 via cruxis
12 apóstoles
Ark of Noe
Cherubs
Saints

Sistine chapel historical background

The chapel takes its name from pope sixtus, who was pope from 1471 to 1484. This pope had previously restored an old chapel in the vatican called "capella magna". Here is where the artistic job
of  miccellangello took place. Some of the walls of the chapel where painted by other famous artists
like boticceli and ghiraldelli, but the most important part, the ceilling, was done by Micelangello. The artist was inspired in the book of the Genesis, with themes like the creation of man and the great flood. The work of the Italian artist lasted from 1536 to 1541 during the pontificate of Paul III. Finally, John Paul II said that the sistine chapel is "a place that, for each pope, holds the memory of a special day in his life"

Source: http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Storia.html

Miccelangello, The original painter of the Sistine Chapel