Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Sistine Şapel'inin Tavanı

Michelangelo, 1508 - 1512

Fresko, × cm

Cappella Sistina, Vatikan

Michelangelo Galerisi

<poem> On Painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling To Giovanni da Pistoia, July 1510 by Michelangelo Buonarroti

I've grown a goiter by dwelling in this den -
   As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy,
   Or in what other land they hap to be -
   Which drives the belly close beneath the chin;
My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in,
   Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly
   Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery
   Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin.
My loins into my paunch like levers grind:
   My buttock like a crupper bears my weight;
   My feet unguided wander to and fro;
In front my skin grows loose and long; behind,
   By bending it becomes more taut and strait;
   Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow:
           Whence false and quaint, I know,
   Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye;
   For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.
                       Come then, Giovanni, try
   To succor my dead pictures and my fame,
   Since foul I fare and painting is my shame.</poem>