ENIGMI DELLA SISTINA

with Corrado Augias

and John C.F. Villa

The Sistine Chapel is not only the greatest opera of art ever executed to that level. It is also an extraordinary container of stories, of religious, historical, political interpretations.

The nearly thirty years that separate the frescoes of the Vault from those of the Judgment wall mark two moments in Michelangelo's biography but also two profoundly different political phases marked by the beginning of the Council of Trent (Paul III - 1545) with all that the event meant for the history of Catholicism and Italy.

Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564. to 450 years later, the evening aims to recount the events that accompanied that titanic feat. Above all, to unveil the infinite micro-stories that the frescoes conceal and that only with expert reading can to be identified.

This is exactly what writer Corrado Augias and art historian Giovanni C.F. Villa will do, who, accompanied by the projection on a large screen of the most fascinating details, will show those present the treasures that that extraordinary environment contains.

For some it will be like really seeingopera - for the first time.