The world of travel might be on hold right now, but just because we're all staying at home to help the world overcome a common enemy doesn't mean we have to put our wanderlust on the back burner. What Exactly is a Through Eternity Virtual Tour? As well as my work for Through Eternity I study sign language, and also teach Contemporary Art in a private academy for young students. I obtained a Masters degree in Art and Disabilities, which gave me the chance to learn more about the importance of ‘removing the obstacles’ and making culture accessible to everyone. While working with people coming from all over the world, I realised that teaching art is a form of art itself, and that there are many cultural, anthropological, psychological and linguistic obstacles that prevent people from fully understanding what they see. A few months later I became a licensed tour guide, and I started working in the most important museums and archaeological areas in Rome. Hi I'm Federica! I have a degree in Art History from La Sapienza University in Rome, where my studies focused on the Italian Renaissance and its protagonists. Tour Description Meet your Guide: Federica If the day of the week or start time of this group tour doesn't work for you, please email us at to arrange a suitable alternative date. It’s a story of a great ideas, big passions and a dream that tried and failed to come true for almost 40 years. Together we’ll be analysing personalities of Michelangelo, the paranoid artist, and Julius II, the terrifying pope, tracing the story that transformed the 1505 project into the monument that we can see today in the Roman church of San Pietro in Vincoli. My virtual tour tries to shed light on this very specific aspect of Michelangelo’s career, an aspect that people tend to forget when fascinated by the great successes of the Florentine genius. In the end, the final version of the funerary monument turned out to be a disappointment, even an embarrassment. The tomb occupied the life of the great artist for almost 40 years, remaining in his mind like like an annoying background noise from 1505 to 1545. While contemplating the magnificence of the frescoed ceiling, we forget about the reasons why Michelangelo was forced to paint it and how desperately he had tried to refuse the commission, in the hope of completing the tomb of the pope Julius II. There is a scar on the knee thought to be the mark of Michelangelo's hammer.For years we all have been doing tours at the Vatican Museums, where every day thousands of people come to see one of the greatest achievements of the Renaissance’s most iconic artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti: the Sistine Chapel. Legend has it that upon its completion he struck the right knee commanding, "now speak!" as he felt that life was the only thing left inside the marble. Michelangelo felt that this was his most lifelike creation. The most famous sculpture associated with the tomb is the figure of Moses, which Michelangelo completed during one of the sporadic resumptions of the work in 1513. After the pope's death in 1513, the scale of the project was reduced step-by-step until, in April 1532, a final contract specified a simple wall tomb with fewer than one-third of the figures originally planned. The original project called for a freestanding, three-level structure with some 40 statues. This project became one of the great disappointments of Michelangelo's life when the pope, for unexplained reasons, interrupted the commission, possibly because funds had to be diverted for Bramante's rebuilding of St. As originally conceived, the tomb would have been a colossal structure that would have given Michelangelo the room he needed for his superhuman, tragic beings.
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