Inapatikana
Michelangelo: Dari ya Sistine
Mchongaji, dari asiyoiomba, na lipu isiyosubiri.
Rome, from the tenth of May 1508. In buon fresco, pigment binds only to plaster that is still wet, so every morning is the same question: how much do you dare lay before dusk. Real people, documented where the sources allow it, and a ceiling that remembers every day you misjudged.
Jinsi unavyochezwa
Tandaza giornata
Giornata ni lipu ya siku moja. Tandaza kidogo, kalenda itakumaliza; tandaza kwa tamaa, umeahidi zaidi ya siku inavyoweza.
Ifunike kabla haijakauka
Mkono wa uangalifu hufunika kidogo na kuwa na thamani zaidi; wa haraka hufunika zaidi na kuwa na thamani ndogo.
Kumjibu Papa
Julius hulipa kwa vipindi visivyo sawa na hasubiri vizuri. Fichua sehemu iliyokamilika na subira yake hurudi.
Vitu halisi
Mchezo huu unahusu mahali halisi na watu halisi. Hivi ni vitu walivyotengeneza, vilivyopigwa picha na makumbusho yanayovihifadhi — si michoro yetu.
Michelangelo’s own red-chalk studies for the Libyan Sibyl, one of the figures you paint in this game. He drew the shoulder, the hand and the toes separately before committing any of it to wet plaster — which is the working method the game is about.
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) — Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 24.197.2 · CC0. See it at the museum