Visits to the Sistine Chapel today require marvelling at its frescoes while being squashed like a sardine alongside fellow visitors as security guards intermittently bark: “Silenzio”.

While this should not put off anyone seeing the real thing, a new hi-tech dramatisation of Michelangelo’s paintings in the chapel provides a fresh and intimate experience of the Sistine Chapel’s art, a foundation piece of Western civilisation’s cultural treasury.