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Ceiling of Sistine Chapel
Vatican City Rome
Italy 1508- 1512
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Patron: Pope Julius
Media: Fresco
Facts: Michaelangelo did not want to paint this. He was a sculptor. He was ordered by the pope do do it.
Content is more than 300 figures in a vast surface
Long sequence of narrative panels describing the creation runs along the crown of the vaul, from God's Separation of Light and Darkness to Drunkeness of Noah.
In the four corner pendentives, Michelangelo place four Old Testament sense.
Style: concentration on expressive purpose of human figure; believed body was beautiful not only in its natural form but also in its spiritual and philosophical significance.
The body was the manifestation of the soul or of a state of mind and character
Body represent in the nude or simply draped with very little background or ornamental embellishment.
Painted with sculptor's eye for how light and shadow communicate volume and surface. |
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