Video: Embroidery of the famous painting of the Sistine Chapel
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous works of art of the Renaissance, created by the talented master of the brush Michelangelo in 1508-1512.. And not so long ago, the painting of the Sistine Chapel was reproduced on canvas, representing an embroidered miniature copy of the famous work of Michelangelo. Canadian Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts, who lives in California, took eight years to complete the embroidery, a total of 3,572 hours.
Before taking on such a laborious project, Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts created some small, simple embroideries until she decided it was time to try something really big. Her choice fell on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel with its dozens of figures and a complex scene scheme. The most difficult thing, according to the master, was to get to work. She began by dividing the canvas into 45 sections, which she alternately filled in with cross-stitch embroidery. The artist even bought books about the Sistine Chapel to make sure that she correctly draws all the details and figures with a needle. It took Joanna 628,296 stitches to reproduce all the elements of Michelangelo's famous painting.
Joanna Lopianovski-Roberts currently keeps the embroidery of the Sistine Chapel at home. And despite the fact that she values her work very much, she says that she will sell it to a good buyer for a good price. At the end of the project, the Canadian artist even published a book "In the Footsteps of Michelangelo: Painting the Sistine Chapel with a Cross", from which lovers of cross-stitching can get useful information.
Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. In 1998, she and her husband moved to the United States. While working as a software consultant, she created much of her embroidery while traveling on business trips and doing needlework in hotel rooms in the United States and Canada.
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