Which is why this image is so blurry.... and has Gareth's head in it. At the bottom of the picture you can see the temptation in the garden, the other pictures are the life of Noah - this is the exit end of the chapel.
It was beautiful of course though not as impressive as I would have thought and actually a bit cartoony. The prophets looked like they could jump from the ceiling, the other images looked far too small in comparison, you could see Michelangelo's sculptural roots. The chapel was actually quite ugly, not helped by the crowd of people with a man in uniform at the front shushing people periodically (you’re not supposed to talk in there at all). What I was impressed with were the fake tapestry's on the walls, they actually looked like someone had tacked up fabric.
I remember this picture from one of my Art History text books, I just loved the way they did perspective, you can just see the lines on the ground wider at the front and narrowing at the back.And before you think we're bad people - other people were taking photos too...admittedly I'm not sure if that makes us any less bad.
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The only really good reason for not letting people take photos is that flash photography is bad for frescos; we were told that by Judy at Knossos. You aren't allowed to take a photo of the throne there because you'd be taking a photo of a dark space with the light behind you and the only way to get a decent photo is with a flash but they destroy the pigment in the fresco so you aren't allowed to at all. Cat got one for us however because her digital camera could get a semi-decent photo without one.
So as long as you didn't use the flash (which is a bit of a give away if you're trying to hide it) I don't think it actually matters. That's probably the whole point of the ban...
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