The Sistine Gaze: I too begin with scaffolding

“The Sistine Gaze engages imaginatively and intellectually with Michelangelo’s frescoes and this demands scale and execution of a high order; it requires a more than usual organisation of sources, religious, philosophical, biblical, mythological, and artistic. The fruitful interaction of the parts, the changing music of the lines, and the dynamic linking of images carry the work forward in lyrical, descriptive and dramatic modes. The poem illuminates an entire process of seeing and understanding.” Maurice HarmonEmeritus Professor, University College Dublin