Original text - English - cooperative learning

As academic myth would no doubt have it, the great Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, laboring alone on scaffolding high above the chapel floor. In fact, 13 people helped Michelangelo paint the work. As biographer William E. Wallace notes, Michelangelo was the head of a good-sized entrepreneurial enterprise that collaboratively made art that bore his name.