The New Immersive Wing
Do not merely view.
Enter.
Five rooms where painting becomes space, architecture becomes light, and music becomes visible.
A closer encounter
Beyond the surface
Enter a work through space, sound or the written word, then return to the original with new eyes.
Rome · 1508–1512
Painting becomes architecture
Michelangelo's painted architecture organizes prophets, sibyls and Genesis scenes into a vast visual system. A ceiling is not a flat picture: the viewer moves beneath it and reads its changing scale.
Curator’s observation
The Sistine Vault room brings the ceiling into an interpretive dome, alongside the nine Genesis episodes.
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