{"id":18671,"date":"2014-02-22T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:12:48","slug":"missing-rome-the-vatican-and-florence-watch-the-first-twelve-minutes-of-the-agony-and-the-ecstasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2014\/02\/missing-rome-the-vatican-and-florence-watch-the-first-twelve-minutes-of-the-agony-and-the-ecstasy.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing Rome, the Vatican, and Florence? Watch the First Twelve Minutes of &#8220;The Agony And The Ecstasy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/02\/agony_and_the_ecstasy.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18672\" title=\"agony_and_the_ecstasy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2014\/02\/agony_and_the_ecstasy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"529\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvd.netflix.com\/Movie\/The-Agony-and-the-Ecstasy\/60011003\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It\u2019s streaming over at Netflix, now<\/a>. It\u2019s one of the many movies that I never got around to seeing until now. In the first twelve minutes, you see gorgeous shots of St. Peter\u2019s Square, as well as narrated details on all of Michelangelo\u2019s sculptures. Really, it\u2019s like a personalized tour, the likes of which most of us will never experience.<\/p>\n<p>As the narration ends, and the camera pans across the rainbow arcing above the dome of St. Peter\u2019s, you may even decide to stick around and watch Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison play their parts as the artist, and the pontiff. Check out the trailer,<!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Agony and the Ecstasy - Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEoV_7cIsKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Michelangelo and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Medici\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Medici\u2019s<\/a>? Time to make some popcorn.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s streaming over at Netflix, now. It\u2019s one of the many movies that I never got around to seeing until now. In the first twelve minutes, you see gorgeous shots of St. Peter\u2019s Square, as well as narrated details on all of Michelangelo\u2019s sculptures. Really, it\u2019s like a personalized tour, the likes of which most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36],"tags":[1575,49,926,1578,1574,30,1577,1576],"class_list":["post-18671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","tag-the-agony-and-the-ecstasy","tag-art","tag-charlton-heston","tag-dimedici","tag-michelangelo","tag-moviestv","tag-pope-julius","tag-sculpture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Missing Rome, the Vatican, and Florence? Watch the First Twelve Minutes of &quot;The Agony And The Ecstasy&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s streaming over at Netflix, now. 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