...Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling The Creation of Adam Page 276 Brandon Steinberg Mr. Ray Morales Art 114-01 23 July 2012 Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. Most of his work was done during the Italian renaissance. Michelangelo was not only known for his amazing paintings, but he was also a sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He has a bunch of pieces, from paintings, to sculptures, which rank among the most famous in history. The piece that I would like to talk about is The Creation of Adam, in the Sistine Chapel. Originally, Michelangelo was supposed to paint the twelve Apostles against a starry sky. Instead of painting this, Michelangelo wanted to paint something that was more complex; which represented creation, the Downfall of Man, and the Promise of Salvation through Christ. Michelangelo was a very unique person, often wanting to be by himself for long periods of times. He was known to, “live like a poor man.” He rarely ate, but when he did it was, “more out of necessity than out of pleasure.” He was a man that believed deeply in Church and the Christian faith. This led him to live a rather rough life sexually and emotionally. According to his faith, anyone who committed acts of homoerotic nature would not be aloud to go to heaven when they pass. This haunted Michelangelo throughout his whole life, and had a great deal in regards...
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... In DQ3 of this week I stated that I had visited the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Visual and performing arts enrich our lives in a many of ways, they entertain us, and educate us about the world we live in, its past and the current time. It is also a way to record our times for future generations. I would like to go into further detail about the amazing artistic talents of Michelangelo. Michelangelo indeed possessed many talents, he was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. When asked at first about painting the Sistine Chapel he was reluctant to do so, because his passion was sculpting. He decided to take on this project and paint. He used watercolors to paint the ceiling. Since he was painting on plaster this process is called fresco. Frescoes are made by adding pigment to lime water and then applied to a wet plaster wall("Life Art And Travel In Italy", 2014). It is the way Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was by far the most famous, and greatest artist during the Italian renaissance. Michelangelo's great love was for sculpting, so he did very few paintings, but the paintings that he did do, are breathtakingly beautiful. What God brought to life with a fingertip, is part of Michelangelo's creation story. The Sistine Chapel is amazing, All I can think about is the length of time it had to take to fresco the ceiling. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel from July of 1508 to October of 1512,("Vatican Museums"...
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...The cleaning of the Sistine Chapel ceiling was one of the most significant art restorations of the 20th century. The restoration changed the way modern viewers perceive 16th Century artist, Michelangelo, and refutes theories developed over the centuries. Before the restoration, the color and lighting of the Sistine chapel was misleadingly interpreted. Two years after the start of the restoration, Patricia Corbett published “After Centuries of Grime”, an article that revealed new developments about Michelangelo’s masterpiece that were before unknown. Corbett describes Michelangelo as a “brilliant and daring colorist whose bold brushwork is surprisingly impressionistic.” The Sistine ceiling had, for many years, been viewed under a “murky veneer” with false shadows and colors that the artist himself had not intended. As Gianluigi Colalucci, the chief conservator of paintings at the Vatican, and his small team meticulously worked to remove layers of dirt and encrustations, they discovered new developments on his style, technique and use of color. The response of critiques such as Pope John Paul II, a contemporary of Michelangelo of the 16th Century, who viewed the work as the artist intended was allegedly “fantastic, fantastic, absolutely marvelous”. The Pope’s reaction to the newly painted work was likely a response to the vibrant colors and energy radiating from the ceiling. After centuries of grime and filth accumulating on the surface of the Sistine ceiling, the public...
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...of the greatest individuals of the Renaissance time period were Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Not only was Da Vinci a great artist, he was also the best in many fields other than art. “Leonardo is often viewed as the archetype of the "Renaissance Man" because of his expertise and interest in many different areas, including art, science, music, mechanics, the arts of war, politics, philosophy, and nearly every other subject that mattered” (Wikibooks, 2010). Michelangelo Buonarroti is arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Both artists had multiple pieces of great art in this time period. Michelangelo had plenty of influences. When he was young he would sketch things on his way to art class. He soon had lessons from a local artist who was also his art teacher named Francesco Granacci. Granacci worked with him for the next couple of years (Harris). He was amazed at how fast Michelangelo learned and how much he excelled compared to Granacci's other students (Ryan). Around age thirteen Michelangelo moved to Florence and began working as an assistant to Domenico Ghirlanaio, who was a very famous fresco painter in Florence (Cook). Ghirlandaio taught Michelangelo just about everything he knew about art. After one year of apprenticeship with Ghirlanaio...
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...Michelangelo was one of the most inspiring artists history has ever seen. He possessed many extraordinary characteristics that made him into the imagine he is today. He was a perfectionist and hard-working. He communicated in his art and created things that no one else had created before. Most of all, he put his heart in everything he did. The Sistine Chapel, probably rated the most beautiful chapel, not only in Europe but also in the whole world, was painted by Michelangelo at the beginning of the 16th century. Michelangelo took four years of non-stop working to complete it. During those four years, Michelangelo started having serious health issues. He started having bad eyesight and his neck started having some issues from his awkward standing position. These health issues forced him to change body positions while painting and ended up lying down while painting. Despite these problems, he continued painting and two years after, the Pope attempted to convince Michelangelo to rush the final part and be done with it a year or two early. Michelangelo plainly rejected the idea and took his time. His product was magical. During his long, long life, Michelangelo suffered from many health problems including becoming slightly blind and having...
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...focus on the individual viewer, and we know that individualism is an important part of the Humanism of the Renaissance” (para. 3). Although beautiful and true to the style of the time, before the Early Renaissance period artist did not paint in three dimensional however, some artist did try to create illusions of space and depth to show the world realistically during the late 1300s unsuccessfully (Op-Art.co.uk, 2012). A list of Renaissance artists took full command of creating three-dimensional illusions on canvases and in their victory we see the world in a new and innovative way. [pic] Fig. 1 1486 Birth of Venus Botticelli Galleria degli Uffizi Sandro Botticelli (1445- 1510) was an Italian painter who studied under the direction Filippo Lippi who was a master painter during the Florentine Renaissance. Lippi taught Botticelli linear perspective along with a linear sense of form for color which is displayed in Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. The painting depicts Venus coming from the sea, arriving at the sea-shore awesomely praised as a goddess by angels and a woman. Humanism is major influence at this time which Botticelli acknowledges by placing Venous nude in the center of the painting. Botticelli painted the goddess Venous to symbolize his version of pagan...
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...The Genius That is Da Vinci & Michelangelo Tammy Klapper-Sinclair Art 101 Art Appreciation Instructor: Todd Leisek October 15, 2012 Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were two of the most famous and talented artists of their time. Born only 20 years apart, their artistic styles and interpretation had a similar focus, much of which was thought of as a reflection of their tortured and troubled minds. Michelangelo was intrigued with the precision of the human form and sought perfection of such in his work. Leonardo da Vinci saw a strong, continuous connection between art and science, and many of his works were explanations and findings of many such experiments. Michelangelo and da Vinci were both ground-breaking, pioneering artistic giants and innovators. Through their use of brilliant color, influential and powerful imagery, and their unusual ways of creating complexity in their work, they established themselves as two of the worlds’ greatest artistic geniuses. Although their artwork and forms were quite different, they shared many similar commonalties. For example, both da Vinci and Michelangelo attained much of their inspiration from passages in the bible. They were also both also extremely eccentric and seemingly tormented men who were also very misunderstood and underestimated during their time. It was also believed that both repressed their homosexuality. Both famous men have gone on to live eternally through their ageless and remarkably, breathtaking...
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...Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was alive during the Renaissance and during that time he accomplished several paintings, sculptures, poems, and drawings. During his lifetime he created the sculpture David which is widely known. He also painted a chapel and that is what most books focus on because it is done so well. The Renaissance was a time of new ideas and the rebirth about art. While there were other artists during the Renaissance that had an influence during the Renaissance, Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists who had an impact during the Renaissance because unlike other artists he knew what he wanted to do with his life and art, he tried all and everything to make his art work the best, and what his work represented...
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...setting over the rolling hills not far from the port. It was amazing how God created such breathtaking existence that I have witnessed several times; but as I went back having new eyes with my husband, who was seeing them for the first time, it was a different story. The river reflecting the clear blue of the sky glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly; and the paddle of the fishermen dipped into the water with a clear and liquid sound. On both sides were untouched natural beauty, and I was very delighted by the historic town not far from my hotel room. Not to mention the delicious cuisine and unique dishes the town has to offer. Being on a port town, you would expect a wide variety of seafood worth trying, as well as many cafes and bakeries known for traditional breads and pastries. Food markets are lively with vibrant colors of fresh fruits, vegetables and of course seafood and a whole lot of wine shops. Three hours away from the hotel lies the Pope’s official home in Vatican City. I have seen many beautiful places in Rome, but the one that made my eyes glitter is the world’s famous chapel, The Sistine Chapel. I was astonished by the beauty of the place. One line to St. Peter’s Basilica, the other line to Sistine Chapel, people are starting to line up to be able to experience what it’s like to be inside a place considered to be the most famous art gallery in the world. The chapel is a high, rectangular brick building. Although there is nothing spectacular...
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...Titian, Assumption of the Virgin, 1516-18, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy Over 20feet high Artist simplified the altarpiece because if there were busy details, the naked eye couldn’t see the piece and understand it from all the way in the back; three simple divisions Simplified the color palette to the three primary colors Features Mary in the middle, the focal point Assumption of the Virgin: Mary is mortal; she cannot carry herself, after her funeral Assention of Jesus: Jesus is divine, can carry himself up to heaven Very vertical God is nicely foreshortened X composition here, in all of his works Mary looks very young, way younger than at her death, and looks healthy, how they wanted to remember her; he idealized Mary At the same time this is being painted, Raphael is painting Pope Leo X People are attacking the very emphasis on paintings like this History Lesson: Protestant Reformation Pope Leo X had to deal with it Before this, the whole church if all Catholic, always has been then there are splits (Protestants) The protestors don’t want to leave the church, just want to reform the parts of the church that they don’t like, why it’s called the Reformation Martin Luther: 95 Thesis, sale of indulgences, buy your way into heaven; and simony, could pay for clergy positions; the clergy was very wealthy; he felt faith was personal; trouble: we don’t...
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...be Michelangelo, Galileo, and William Shakespeare. Michelangelo was a great artist during the renaissance, he sculpted, painted, and did architecture. Galileo was a scientist who was a mathematician and an astronomer who had breakthrough views on the solar system. William Shakespeare was an English writer who changed the perspective on how to write. Michelangelo creativity and methods through his art really showed how advanced he was in his talent. Michelangelo’s art provided realism which led him to create extraordinary art pieces. He also created the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the walls of the Chapel of Sistine in Rome. These...
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...birth and childhood Michelangelo was born, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simon, commomly known as Michelangelo. His date of birth was recorded as March 6, 1475. Michelangelo was born in a small village of Caprese, in Tuscany Italy, near Arezzo, Republic of Florence, to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti Simoni and Francesca Neri. Michelangelo was born the second of five brothers, to his mother, who died when he was only six years old (“Britannica,” 2012). Michelangelo’s childhood was considered to be low key, grim in nature, lacking in affection, and very silent. He appeared a bit touchy and quick to respond with agitated or fierce words when he was approached by others. Michelangelo was considered to be shy and most of the time he kept to himself, leaving little to no room to trust his fellow friends. After the death of his mother, Michelangelo was sent to live with a stonecutter and his family in a town called, Settignano, where he learned the craft of a hammer and chisel. Michelangelo went to his father, and told him he wanted to be an artist, and that made his father furious at the thought and he flew into a rage (“Britannica,” 2012). Bonner (2009) noted that his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to study grammar in Florence. While studying the principles of Latin, Michelangelo befriended a student, Francesco Granacci who encouraged him to follow his own desire for an artistic vocation. At the age of thirteen, Michelangelo infuriated his father when...
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...It was only in 1927 that the Corsican painter Corbellini, curator of the Fesch Museum, discovered the painting in the Ajaccio Cathedral. Indeed, Corbellini had read in the Gazette des beaux-arts an article of André Joubin describing the composition. Thus, he came in the cathedral, did a sketch and sent it to Joubin who confirmed that it was the painting searched for more than half a century, as related by Corbellini himself: “M. André Joubin après examen du croquis de notre tableau en confirme l’interprétation .” Then, exhibited at the Louvre for the Romanticism centenary in 1930, the Virgin of the Sacred Heart - also called the Triumph of the Religion from that moment -, was transferred to the Fesch Museum in 1931, when has been found a solution to replace it in the cathedral . After the World War II and the disappearance in Ajaccio of the archives indicating reasons about the transfer, the Virgin of the Sacred Heart, once again, was placed in the cathedral. Thus, no one knew the origin of the Immaculate Conception , a copy of the Murillo painting, commissioned in 1931to replace the rejected commission from Nantes. However, conditions of conservation in the cathedral were not better than before the war, and,...
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...Raphael is Italian painter during the Renaissance period and he was born in Urbino, Italy on April 6, 1483 (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). He was the one of the major three leading artists who is Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci during that period. Raphael's father, Giovanni Santi, painter at the court of Federigo Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, first taught him the elements of art and introduced the boy to humanistic philosophy at the court (Raphael). Raphael also helped his father with the court art (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). A brilliant self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocious talent. Raphael lost his mother at age of eight and his father remarried, but Raphael lost his father when he was eleven. Raphael, who now has become the orphan, lived with his uncle Bartolomeo, a priest and later he joined the workshop of Perugino (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). Around 1500’s influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin (Livingstone). At this period it was almost impossible to distinguish whether it’s work by Perugino or Raphael. In 1504 Raphael arrived in Florence, it was full of recent innovations of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci Raphael’s Peruginesque style was out dated. Raphael was attracted to Leonardo’s work and his ideas, for 3 years, Raphael adapted and elaborated Leonardo’s ideas of design, modeling...
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...humility on the masses, while they seemed to live the lives of nobility. This did not go unnoticed by the laity, who were growing weary of the corruption and hypocrisy. Disenchanted Catholics, jaded by the Church’s excesses and abuses of power began finding satisfaction in the Protestant movement which had spawned in 1517, and promised a return to the true values of spirituality. As the Catholic Church realized their membership was hemorrhaging, the leadership convened the Council of Trent in 1545 to address the corruption and abuses staining their reputation and driving their followers away. The Council of Trent was a major step taken in the Catholic Church’s attempt to “clean house”, and improve their damaged reputation. As a result, there were numerous reforms and actions undertaken by the Church to put an end to the apparent secularism which had begun to creep into and spread through their organization. This shift from spirituality, and acceptance thereof, could merely be a reflection of the changing culture as humanism and individualism had begun to pervade society. This growing secularist sentiment within the Church leadership, and the resultant departure from strict adherence to scripture, can be seen today in some of the art commissioned by Catholic Church leadership immediately preceding the Counter Reformation. A notable example is Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1537-1541) in the Sistine Chapel. In the lower right corner, we can see Charon ferrying the damned across the...
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