The Vatican

Tomorrow my daughter and I will visit the Vatican.  She has come to Italy to see us, our first house guest in nearly two years.  She will stay during her birthday (June 11) while we take a rather special trip around Italy.  She has never been here, so the Vatican is a “must see.”  I’ll…

Michelangelo and the ‘ezer kenegdo

I recently listened to an excellent lecture by Elaine Ruffolo, an art historian, who spoke about Michelangelo’s women (the title of the lecture available on YouTube).  In it she points out that the center of the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not God’s creation of Adam (perhaps the most famous of the Sistine…