INDUSTRY CITY — Why travel more than 4,000 miles to Rome to see something that can be viewed — more intimately and up close — in your own Brooklyn backyard?
After making its way through London, Shanghai, Toronto, Chicago, Vienna and many other cities around the world, reproductions of the renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, will be on display in Brooklyn’s Industry City now through Jan. 5, 2025.
A cornerstone work of High Renaissance art, the exhibition features the artist’s 34 frescoes reproduced, utilizing exclusively licensed images from Bridgeman Images, the world’s leading source of fine art imagery, and brought down from the ceilings of the Vatican for an up close and personal experience.
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Martin Biallas, producer of the Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Exhibition and CEO of SEE Global Touring, told the Brooklyn Eagle that while this is the third time the exhibition has been in New York, it’s the first time making its way to the borough of Brooklyn.
“Brooklyn has started to become a lucrative and affordable area to present attractions like this,”
Biallas said. “There are a lot of locals in Brooklyn that I believe would be interested in this that might not want to go to Manhattan to see it.”
Biallas thought of the idea for this particular exhibit roughly 14 years ago.
“I was in Rome and saw the Sistine Chapel, but I just didn’t like the experience. There are 2,000 people in a 10,000-square-foot area. The art is 60 feet high, and they push you out after 15 minutes. Don’t even think about taking a picture.
“When I left I didn’t enjoy it,” Biallas continued. “I then said to myself, if I could find a way…
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