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The Prophet Joel is one of the seven Old Testament prophets painted by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo (c. 1508–1512) on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Sistine Chapel is in Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City. This particular fresco imagines the person of Joel, a prophet from the Hebrew Bible, whose teachings appear in the ...
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) for tenor voice and piano in 1940, and published as his Op. 22. [1] It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears (1910–86). The manuscripts of the songs are dated between April and October 1940; but there is some evidence that the ...
A partially black-and-white music video was produced to promote the single, directed by British director Lindy Heymann. [4] It features singer Steele and dancers performing in a basement. The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe [5] and was later published on Felix' official YouTube channel in 2012. It had generated almost 1 million ...
"Michelangelo", written by Bengt Palmers and Björn Skifs, is a Swedish song performed by Björn Skifs, reaching fifth place in Melodifestivalen 1975, the Swedish qualification competition for the Eurovision Song Contest that year. The song is about trying to call Michelangelo Buonarroti to find out how he made his nice paintings.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Billy Joel is coming back with his first new song in 17 years! Though Joel, 74, plans to end his long-running monthly residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden ...
Billy Joel is back with new music for the first time in 17 years. The singer-songwriter has announced the release of “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first solo song since 2007 and second since ...
The Prophet Jonah is opposite the fresco of the prophet Zachariah. [5] Behind the figure of Jonah, Michelangelo has painted a large fish (a tarpon), a reference to the fact that in the Book of Jonah, Jonah is swallowed by one. A close-up of the face of the central figure
The song, written by musician Freddy Wexler and recorded by Joel, marked the first time Joel has released new music in years. Joel’s previous single, “All My Life,” arrived in 2007, and his ...