Il tempo di Michelangelo

Film movie with Antonio Paolucci directed by Gianmarco D’Agostino | Roma, Firenze 2010

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and the New Sacristy in San Lorenzo in Florence

Vatican, year of Christ 1481. The construction of the Sistine Chapel is completed and Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere calls upon the best artists of the century to fresco it. Years later Michelangelo Buonarroti, with the colours of the Genesis and the Last Judgement, will tell the story of the beginning and end of Time.

Florence, Basilica of San Lorenzo. In 1520 Pope Leo X commissioned Michelangelo to build a chapel to honour two cadets of the Medici family. the statues in the New Sacristy are a celebration of man in the all-consuming Time machine.