This might be a long shot, but has anyone seen any discount links or promo etc for the Sistine Chapel Exhibition? Full priced ticket is close to $30 for the lowest tier, which seems slightly steep.
https://sistinechapelexhibit.com/melbourne/?utm_source=faceb…
thanks
I always used to think it was 16th
Glad to see I’m not the only one
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Can anyone tell me how it smells inside the Sistine chapel?
before or after a curry?
Interestingly enough the smell is not the thing that stays with you. In my case it wasn’t even the ceiling, it was the “Last Judgement”. You can almost forgive the Catholic church for destroying so many people’s lives just to see the Vatican Museums and St Peter’s Basilica.
When I click on your link is says tix start at $23.40 … perhaps the discount you're looking for??
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Date: Starting January 22nd, 2022
Duration Duration: The visit takes around 60 to 90 minutes
Tickets Tickets from $16.5 per child, $23.4 per adult
Location Location: Emporium Melbourne
Age requirement Age requirement: All ages!
Edit: until you go into click buy now… then it goes up on weekends
Does it come with busloads of tourists trying to sneak photos without the guards noticing?
I took a Snapchat while in the Sistine Chapel. It remember being sandwiched with a zillion tourists and we were all asked to slowly move forward. It was very atmosphere. There was zero chance of walk back.
I can't imagine being in the same environment any soon.
Went to the exhibition. It is cheaper if you buy the tickets online but it does have a booking fee.
It isn’t like seeing the original, funnily enough.
I’m a tad torn on whether to recommend this. It is interesting to see some of the artwork close up but it’s a bit like looking at giant cardboard cut outs. It isn’t the full ceiling just segments of it; although it is the main segments. They play classical music in the background, which is good. There is, also, some interesting videos that discuss the works in another room.
I, certainly, didn’t get the effect I got from seeing the original. Seeing the Last Judgement, in the Sistine chapel, really did take my breath away; it was a physical reaction to it.
The Vatican had some of the more explicit nudity, in the Last Judgement, painted over to ward off impure thoughts. Frankly if you are looking at the Last Judgement, and you have impure thoughts with the nudity, you may have missed the point of the painting.
If you can I, really, recommend people go to the Vatican Museum and St Peter’s. I’m not religious but the art, and architecture, are glorious.
Great review which is very helpful.
I visited Emporium today and went to see the Exhibition. I took the escalator up to the 4th floor and was surprised to see that the floor had been stripped back in places to just bare concrete, concrete pillars with no ceiling other than air conditioning. In part of this area temporary walls had been erected to create a long corridor with a set of seats with a projection screen and seats in another area.
In the corridor were a series of reproductions of the Sistene Chapel paintings on panels with each panel maybe 10 x 6 floor in size. I couldn't work out whether I they were made of fabric or not but they looked a little fuzzy to me. I haven't been to the Sisten Chapel (yet) but the panels didn't have much impact on me. Each panel seemed to feature a subject out of the bible with the first panel being where Adam meets God.
For me personally after seeing one or two panels/paintings the rest was all more of the same. Same pastel colours, same style, same single subject. At the end of corridor was a larger panel with the last judgement as the feature.
I think at the end of the day the problem is that the real Sistene Chapel is big and has these painting all over the chapel so its like one massive artwork. If one visits the Vatican I'm sure that the Sisten Chapel would be overwhelming to see because of its size and the scale of the artwork. But a series of panels can't convey that sense of scale. If someone wants to examine each panel in details, perhaps to see the painting style etc then this exhibition would be ok but a series of panels like this, harboured in a half finished area of Emporium with a bare concrete floor is not going to have the same impact as visiting the real thing. One might be be better off using the entrance fee to buy a coffee table book with all the paintings reproduced in better quality .
Having said the above it will still a good excuse to have lunch in the city so I'm not complaining. It is what it is.
You might be interested is this exhibition. Try to avoid going when there are likely to be kids.
Thanks but at $31 its not terribly ozbargain-friendly. Have you been to the exhibition? Are there any discounts available?
There is a senior discount.
We went a few months ago. It is, actually, pretty good because the images are projected in a very big room. It covers his various periods and gives you a bit of background info. They play classical music to accompany. I, certainly, thought this was better value than the Sistine chapel exhibit.
You can eat at a cafe decked out like one of his paintings. The food cost wasn’t outrageous.
The problem we had is parents who have no idea how to control their kids; the kids were running around making noise.
I've already seen the Van Gogh gallery in Amsterdam so its not a high priority for me. Actually, when I visited there, they made a full size maze (like 6-7foot tall) in the square outside. It was a sea of green and gold.
I'll save my pennies for this
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/04/audienc…
If you got to see the Escher exhibit, in Melbourne, it was brilliant and well staged.
I head for the art galleries when overseas. I went to the Picasso museum and the best bit was Picasso’s cubist series based around Diego Velázquez‘s Las Meninas. Just before we visited that we had seen the Velazquez original.
It blows my mind how we can see this amazing art from around the world. One of my favourites is Bosch; this guy has a, very, warped view of the world.
In relation to the Van Gough we’ve been to Musee D’Orsay a few times and we also went to the Van Gough
Museum in Amsterdam. The guy is amazing and it is such a tragedy he killed himself.
One of my “if you could go back in time” choices is to go back and tell Da Vinci to do more paintings. The inventions will sort themselves out over time.
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