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A famous popular image of a Renaissance master shows him lying on his back to paint a ceiling, but the real story of how the work was done differs from that legend.
Michelangelo actually painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing upright on custom-built scaffolding he designed himself, reaching upward and tilting his head back for hours at a stretch rather than lying flat on his back as popular legend depicts. This grueling posture reportedly left him with lasting strain in his neck and back.
The image of him lying flat on his back is a persistent myth, and painting with long-handled brushes from the floor would have made the ceiling's fine detail impossible, so neither alternative matches the historical record.
His scaffolding was cleverly designed to attach to holes in the walls rather than rest on the floor, so the chapel below could keep hosting services while the enormous project was still underway.
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