A dozen top street painters converged on the Bay Area to re-create Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The painting will be “about half the size of the original. Parts of the ceiling have been done at various international festivals, but this 75-by-25-foot work is apparently the first to re-create the entire biblical epic, which contains more than 300 figures arrayed in a richly detailed architectural setting of spandrels and pendentives and putti-adorned pilasters. It took Michelangelo from 1508 to 1512 to complete the great work for Pope Julius II. These artists are replicating it in six days. ‘We want to make it as true to the actual ceiling as possible, but allowing each artist to bring their expression into it’.”