From Rome to Sydney: Michelangelo\u2019s heavenly ceilings are being reborn in a world-first immersive experience.<\/p>\n
The exhibition \u2013\u2013 located in Sydney\u2019s iconic St Mary\u2019s Cathedral \u2013\u2013 will open to the public on Saturday, with tickets selling fast.<\/p>\n
It will run for over two months until the 19th of July, inviting visitors \u201creflect on the relationship between art and meaning,\u201d and \u201cconsider how beauty shapes civilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, who received express permission from Vatican Museums to reimagine Michelangelo\u2019s famous frescoes. <\/p>\n
Exhibition Director Jane Dillion said that the \u201cproject is about more than replication, it\u2019s about evoking the awe of the Sistine Chapel in a completely new context.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibition brings the splendor of the Sistine Chapel to life with cutting-edge projection technology and ultra-high-resolution imagery sourced directly from the Vatican archives.<\/p>\n
Creative lead Lawrence Qummou said that \u201cwe want to\u2026use the best of the technologies available to us to experience the Sistine Chapel anew, enabling people who will never get to Rome to experience the most famous ceiling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibition comprises two spaces: the Introductory Gallery, which provides key historical context on the Sistine Chapel, and the Immersive Projection Chamber \u2014 the centrepiece of the experience \u2014 which recreates the interior of the chapel.<\/p>\n
The Sistine Chapel is a world renowned Renaissance chapel in the Vatican City. Built in the 15th century, the chapel is host to the Papal Conclave (where a new pope is elected), and attracts millions of visitors a year.<\/p>\n
At its heart is Michelangelo\u2019s \u2018The Last Judgment\u2019, which frames the ceiling and is now set to be projected inside Sydney\u2019s St Mary\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n
The exhibition promises a \u201cprofound encounter with the art, history and imagination of the Renaissance,\u201d with Director Dillion saying that the \u201cinstallation\u2026captures the Chapel\u2019s breathtaking proportions, and translates that sense of wonder into an accessible, immersive experience for audiences in the heart of Sydney.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Rome to Sydney: Michelangelo\u2019s heavenly ceilings are being reborn in a world-first immersive experience. The exhibition \u2013\u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[247],"class_list":{"0":"post-11263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}