Jul 26, 2026 · 16 min · 7 segments
Official podcast Channel of Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP - The Ninth Archbishop of Sydney. Here you will find his Sunday Homilies, and regular addresses delivered on a wide range of religious, ethics…
Anthony FisherHost
By now I trust that many of you will already have seen, and the rest of you will have booked to see, the Sistine Chapel Revelations immersive exhibition in our Cathedral Square.
Everyone delights in Michelangelo's mesmerising ceiling, including his famous Creation of Adam.
Likewise, his sprawling Last Judgement that covers the entire altar wall of the chapel.
It's no wonder many people think Michelangelo painted the whole Sistine Chapel.
Yet there are other great paintings on the side walls of the Sistina, often going unnoticed or underappreciated.
Twenty years before Michelangelo painted his ceiling, and almost sixty before his altar wall, an all-star team of Tuscan and Umbrian artists, Perugino, Botticelli, Rosselli, Ghirlandaio and Signorelli, painted the walls with parallel cycles of the lives of Moses and Jesus.
It was painted in 1482 at the request of Pope Sixtus IV for whom the chapel is named.
On the opposite wall we see the Baptism of Christ, painted by the same artist in the same year and intended as its pair.
One the origins of the Jewish rite of circumcision by which males were incorporated into old Israel.
Christ stands in the waters of Jordan while John the Baptist pours water over his head.
A crowd of contemporary Romans are divesting themselves of their sumptuous attire in readiness for baptism and the Jordan is the river Tiber.
For Perugino the holy scene was not just a historical snapshot but a mystery into which people of every age are invited.
To render in paint the voice heard from heaven Perugino displays God the Father within a luminous roundel surrounded by angels and blessing his son.
By now I trust that many of you will already have seen, and the rest of you will have booked to see, the Sistine Chapel Revelations immersive exhibition in our Cathedral Square.
Everyone delights in Michelangelo's mesmerising ceiling, including his famous Creation of Adam.
Likewise, his sprawling Last Judgement that covers the entire altar wall of the chapel.
It's no wonder many people think Michelangelo painted the whole Sistine Chapel.
Yet there are other great paintings on the side walls of the Sistina, often going unnoticed or underappreciated.
Twenty years before Michelangelo painted his ceiling, and almost sixty before his altar wall, an all-star team of Tuscan and Umbrian artists, Perugino, Botticelli, Rosselli, Ghirlandaio and Signorelli, painted the walls with parallel cycles of the lives of Moses and Jesus.
It was painted in 1482 at the request of Pope Sixtus IV for whom the chapel is named.
On the opposite wall we see the Baptism of Christ, painted by the same artist in the same year and intended as its pair.
One the origins of the Jewish rite of circumcision by which males were incorporated into old Israel.
Christ stands in the waters of Jordan while John the Baptist pours water over his head.
A crowd of contemporary Romans are divesting themselves of their sumptuous attire in readiness for baptism and the Jordan is the river Tiber.
For Perugino the holy scene was not just a historical snapshot but a mystery into which people of every age are invited.
To render in paint the voice heard from heaven Perugino displays God the Father within a luminous roundel surrounded by angels and blessing his son.
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