Harvey, you drove me to explore some ancient art and the affects heat and humidity have had on the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo soldiered on and finished a masterpiece and when completed he wrote a description of his work experience.
I quote him;
My beard turns up to heaven; my nape falls in,
Fixed on my spine: my breast-bone visibly
Grows like a harp: a rich embroidery
Bedews my face from brush-drops thick and thin.
My loins into my paunch like levers grind:
My buttock like a crupper bears my weight;
My feet unguided wander to and fro;
In front my skin grows loose and long; behind,
By bending it becomes more taut and strait;
Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow:
Whence false and quaint, I know,
Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye;
Hume said he can agree with Michelangelo except that Michelangelo didn't have an acetylene torch, a Bridgeport Mill, a Miller welder
or an English Wheel to help him, so Hume said the technology has given him an advantage over the storied artist.
Therefore both will put their art on display for the public to judge......when it's done. The Chapel has had it's facelift after 500 years, so apparently it's
still an ongoing project. Hume has about 485 years to go to reach the same level.
I doubt many climbed the scaffold to inquire of Michelangelo, "when will you be done? and what will the heat an humidity do to this picture?"
I appreciate your dedication if you have read this in it's entirety.
FREUD