Sistine Chapel: A look inside after crowds leave | BBC News

[@just_kos99]

My son went to the Chapel with my sister, when he was 14. He emailed me later and said, "Mom, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." I mean, a 14 year old teenaged boy, saying this? It's that remarkable.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Looking to see when the next Far Right protest march is…. Actually, when was the last one?

[@irawilliams343]

To see Michaelangelo's masterpieces upclose is a great life achievement for a history lover like me

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

His other mater piece includes the Pieta, Marry holding Jesus, is inside the Vatican church, tourist can see it for free

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

They want you to believe that child molestation is a lesser evil than being called a racist.

[@alancawfield6549]

I was there last year it's stunningly beautiful.You could spend all day looking at the paintings on the walls and ceiling. All the idiots taking pictures when they are explicitly told not to do so though is annoying why the hell can't people have simple respect for something they're lucky to get the chance to see in the first place.

[@frank1fm634]

I agree with you 100%.

[@hayeonkim7838]

I always want to love the value of classical art, which has always preserved its outstanding beauty ❤💝💖💗🩷

[@samcalvinist4986]

Sistine Chapel great part of our Christian Heritage, I appreciate it even though i am a Protestant. I hope good people of Italy protect this and all other Christian Masterpieces of Italy.

[@Alyson_Turner]

Cannot wait to see these masterpieces in future is still going back in time

[@selam1353]

I only wish if we can respect human life even half as much as these art pieces. The areas are testament of human existence, they deserve the all the protection and the hype!! ❤

[@Dunning_Krugger]

It is so overwhelming

[@12TribesUnite]

Cool! Its so beautiful - really worth seeing

[@RRahulRadhaRahul]

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[@julianaylor4351]

Michaelangelo would have appreciated what they are doing. There has to be a limit to the number of people in the room, to protect that amazing Renaissance masterpiece on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel, otherwise they will have to carry out a more rigorous rethink. One of the prehistoric painted caves in France, now has a replica, because the real one is endangered. I hope that never happens in the distant future, for this Christian heritage treasure.

[@mytorment]

I'd imagine your intense LED light has an affect

[@Thunder_Dome45]

Hey you misspelled sixteenth chapel. Wow and you're a news agency.

[@Laurentiushumble3504]

Dummy!!! Is SISTEN CHAPEL not Sixteenth lol 😂

[@lalabrin3948]

The Vatican experts speak English better than the reporter.

[@RobertAdcock-v4o]

i love my artwork i love the memories doing it with my partner

[@RobertAdcock-v4o]

im the artist michealangelo im ready to go back home and restore my masterpiece i was just a child when i left

[@SofiaPreCure]

Ooh! I never saw that church before that's a little pretty

[@HairyPinkTroll]

2:04 looks like Javier millei

[@Aywol]

So, this is the Sistine Cathedral, not the chapel, the chapel is behind this room. Been there many times, Stop calling it the chapel.

[@GrahamOsborne-x6t]

I only wish if we can respect human life even half as much as these art pieces. The areas are testament of human existence, they deserve the all the protection and the hype!!

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Understanding race realism and being debt free are two keys to freedom.

[@lauramarlo8108]

Difficult to understand speaker.

[@breakingewes1316]

Enable CCs

[@rsc9520]

Agree - HORRIBLE audio quality. BBC should not release such poor quality videos.

[@MAGAted]

can't see that sistine chapel now without remembering when starmer tried to reproduce it during his first conference speech as leader, when he and doreen lawrence tried to reach out to each other across the conference hall pass the sick bucket

[@jermaine2396]

We won

[@arianaalemi-ce6bv]

Had to pretend i was on the phone to take a picture of the ceiling when i went here in 2019. It was so beautiful

[@SherienElBehery]

😃👍👏

[@shilajastephen]

Beautiful truth God Jesus praise the Lord

[@patterdale4332]

Come on you can't be that daft to think that a fat man with a beard lives on a cloud

[@nadiradutt8470]

BUCKET LIST

[@RobertAdcock-v4o]

i live in lamar co

[@davidjacobs828]

Painter and decorator world famous 460 years after his death .. 😂

[@boris8787]

Forget about religious temples - what the world needs is Jesus Christ - the ONLY way to Heaven. John 14:6. ❤❤❤

[@auro1986]

like everything bad bbc always sticks around till end

[@CLulk]

OT: Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations--WOR and WLVI!

[@mahamedsulub]

Arounds last night tea raso lady across floods

[@Ocha-v]

Pesil sistine

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

muslims want to paint over it

[@Herobeans]

No they don't, who told you that

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

muslims@@Herobeans

[@Herobeans]

@@watch-Dominion-2018 Which muslims

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

all@@Herobeans

[@Herobeans]

@@watch-Dominion-2018 What? All 2 billion?

[@eugenio1542]

Bullshit to not show more. I went through in 85. Mostly scaffolding and poor light in tiny chapel with crazy high ceilings. Why not give us a better view ? Horrible humans 😢

[@josephhapp9]

There is a book showing photos of the restoration done in the 1990s,,,before and after. Your local library may have a copy. It was very dirty, 400 years of candle smoke.

[@magnamarianneczagany8970]

@@josephhapp9. The cleaning of a Japanese firm was a disaster. It destroyed the outer layer of the magnificent paintings. The shadows and nuances were gone. The figures looked like porcelain dolls.

[@josephhapp9]

@@magnamarianneczagany8970 did Michelangelo verify your statement? We will never know.

[@whitekuk4679]

I'm just going to say it. I don't see a lot of diversity on that ceiling.

[@lbednaz]

When it was painted most Italians had never seen a person of any other race!

[@b.c.34]

😂😂😂😂 i really do not know the mood you were when you wrote this write up, but you sound like a child. Kudos @lbenaz for the respond you gave@whitekuk

[@SeachGateINDIA]

All naked people inside the chapel walls. All naked and shameless imagination 😡

[@magical_bean]

The hell r u on about

[@JesusIstheNameTakenInVain]

Cant think of many worse places to visit. Trust bbc 😅. Not for me.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

you hate European history?

[@JesusIstheNameTakenInVain]

. He has been good to me. Jesus is He.

[@robertcreighton4635]

I reckon i could paint better. 🎨 😂

[@HerrPoopenstein]

You know what these stories never tell you? Michaelangelo HATED this project. He hated working on it so bad he LITERALLY ran away. He ran from the town and the Popes police captured him, dragged him back, and FORCED him to finish what he never wanted to start in the first place. THAT is a very important part of his history, the works history, and the Churches SHAME for centuries of ABUSE and oppression and cruelty against their own.

[@brx8r]

Michelangelo is a myth

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

This is correct. I heard they locked him in there with a load of women to keep him happy. He was very argumentative towards the church authorities, but they knew he was the best there was.

[@olas16k]

I can only imagine what those poor women went through considering he would go weeks without bathing @@Andrew-rc3vh

[@HerrPoopenstein]

@@Andrew-rc3vh No, they did not do that. He had apprentice staff, but he'd have been much happier not being there at all. I'm letters he complained about the terrible neck pain he acquired from the physicality of laying upside down on scaffolding, and having to crawl up and down on it all day.

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

@@HerrPoopenstein I think you will find Vasari explain the women. They were beautiful young women and he very much had an eye for beauty, so he was a bit of a womaniser, like had a following. The church saw it as immoral, but figured what goes on behind closed doors can be forgotten about, for the sake of their art being done. He had a history of difficulty in getting him to finish what commissions he was given. Work would stop and start.

[@claudiaxander]

This is what the Glaswegian Wonka World could have been if only the promoter had applied himself.

[@markdowse3572]

So beautiful! 😍 Nobody needs to believe in an imaginary friend to appreciate the magnificent work done and the care of the current experts. Bravo! 👍🤗 M 🦘🏏😎

[@kanyewestvideos3925]

ofcourse an atheist has to show why hes an idiot! no one asked whether you believe or don't believe.

[@prithivikumarsj3341]

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