Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. A multimedia icon

A masterpiece that never ceases to attract attention, interpretations, and emotions. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, one of the most famous pictorial cycles in art history, is brought to life in a surprising new interpretation in the exhibition at Casa Buonarroti: “Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. A multimedia icon,” scheduled to run in Florence from September 24, 2025, to January 7, 2026.

With over 60 works, the exhibition offers a reinterpretation of one of the most monumental and famous pictorial cycles in the history of Renaissance art with an evocative interpretation: the “multimedia iconicity” of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. The media, engraving, photography, illustrated publishing, cinematography, television documentaries and commercial advertising graphics have played a significant role in translating and interpreting the complex pictorial narrative created by Buonarroti in the Vatican, disseminating the visual documentation through dozens of fragments and individual shots, figurative passages that take on new meaning, especially in the contemporary world and in the presence of a social context that is largely indifferent to the exegesis of the pictorial work.

This exhibition offers a historical overview and a new interpretation of the “multimedia iconicity” of the Sistine Chapel, showing how the media have translated and disseminated Michelangelo's figurative language up to the present day.