Virtual Sistene Chapel

This is awesome! You can explore every inch of the Sistene Chapel. Your arrow keys allow you to turn and you're able to zoom in. This is one of the places I have always wanted to visit. It took only about 4 years for Michealangelo to paint 12,000 square feet of vaulted ceiling. It wasn't merely a matter of picking up a paint brush, squeezing paint from a tube and applying it. He and the other artists who painted the chapel used the fresco process which is mixing pigment with water and applying it to fresh, wet plaster. The plaster absorbs the color. I way over-simplified the procedure. You can't apply plaster to a large area at once because it dries too fast, so I would think it would be difficult to get uniformity in color since you have to stop to apply more plaster.Since they couldn't be sure of the color until it dried, it amazes me how the colors, done in patches, match so well.