Pennington Public Library TED Talks Discussion Group: The Unseen Story Of The Sistine Chapel

Press release from the Pennington Public Library:

Originally published: April 14, 2020

Updated: May 7, 2020

Fourth Mondays of the Month (Unless noted below), 12:30-1:30pm via Zoom

Listen to riveting, inspiring thinkers at the top of their professions present innovation in every discipline! We will hold lively discussions after showing these short 15-20 minute films that promise to engage and challenge us to think wider, deeper, higher! An original topic will be presented each month. These films will be streamed via Zoom before each discussion. No need to watch prior.

The nonprofit TED is an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design. The organization is celebrated for its semiannual conferences that bring together some of the world’s best movers, shakers, and thinkers in a wide variety of disciplines.

May 18 (3rd Monday): The Unheard Story of the Sistine Chapel
Speaker: Elizabeth Lev, Art Historian

The Sistine Chapel is one of the most iconic buildings on earth — but there’s a lot you probably don’t know about it. In this tour-de-force talk, art historian Elizabeth Lev guides us across the famous building’s ceiling and Michelangelo’s vital depiction of traditional stories, showing how the painter reached beyond the religious iconography of the time to chart new artistic waters. Five hundred years after the artist painted it, says Lev, the Sistine Chapel forces us to look around as if it were a mirror and ask, “Who am I, and what role do I play in this great theater of life?”

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